Apxs not installed

[Martijn <sw...@googlemail.com>]

Hello.

While rebuilding our webserver, I am trying to install modperl 2.0.3
under Apache 2.0.52 on RHEL4. However, when I run 'perl Makefile.PL',
it says it can't find apxs. I am quite sure it isn't installed -find
doesn't find it, so it definitely doesn't exist under its own name-
but if I understand things correctly, it is standard part of Apache.
Am I missing something?

Thanks.

Martijn.

Re: Apxs not installed

[Tyler Gee <ge...@gmail.com>]

On 5/23/07, Martijn <sw...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> While rebuilding our webserver, I am trying to install modperl 2.0.3
> under Apache 2.0.52 on RHEL4. However, when I run 'perl Makefile.PL',
> it says it can't find apxs. I am quite sure it isn't installed -find
> doesn't find it, so it definitely doesn't exist under its own name-
> but if I understand things correctly, it is standard part of Apache.
> Am I missing something?

Are you trying to build a dynamic or static mod_perl?  The
instructions are pretty different but basically a dynamic server
assumes you have apache already installed, in which case you would
have apxs, and the static server does not.

I've used the standard static server installation instructrions [1] on
RHEL4 a number of times without problems.

[1] http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/user/install/install.html#Static_mod_perl

>
> Thanks.
>
> Martijn.
>


-- 
~Tyler

Re: Apxs not installed

["William A. Rowe, Jr." <wr...@rowe-clan.net>]

Martijn wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> While rebuilding our webserver, I am trying to install modperl 2.0.3
> under Apache 2.0.52 on RHEL4. However, when I run 'perl Makefile.PL',
> it says it can't find apxs. I am quite sure it isn't installed -find
> doesn't find it, so it definitely doesn't exist under its own name-
> but if I understand things correctly, it is standard part of Apache.
> Am I missing something?

That would be a question for a RH list, no?  We don't even try to grok
w.t.f. vendors do with their distributions.

But just as an observation, apxs might have been chucked at an /sbin
path, or renamed to disambiguate apxs-1.3 from apxs-2.0, or not be
installed at all unless you install some httpd-devel package.  This
isn't really the right place to find out why redhat did what and why :)

Bill