1.2.1 problems with Linux/GLIBC (fwd)

[Rob Hartill <ro...@imdb.com>]

One for the linux gurus.

The suggestion is better off rejected IMO since ErrorDocument is there
to allow infinite customisation, and sprucing up the default errors could
be a never ending task as one more 'minor' change follows another.


---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 21:20:19 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <ro...@bero-online.ml.org>
To: apache-bugs@apache.org
Subject: 1.2.1 problems with Linux/GLIBC

Hello,
there are a few minor problems when trying to compile Apache 1.2.1 with
Linux 2.x and GLIBC 2.x:

1) The crypt library (required with GLIBC) isn't included by default.
   I'd like to fix this, but I haven't found a way to autoconf glibc yet.

2) buff.c includes <sys/uio.h>, which you can't do in GLIBC (redefinition)
   Same thing here - the fix is easy, but I can't autoconf glibc.

3) Not a bug, but a suggestion:

I'd like to see the following patch included - it shows the administrator
address as hyperlink rather than just text in the default error message:

--- http_protocol.c~    Tue Jul  1 08:50:29 1997
+++ http_protocol.c     Mon Jul  7 21:05:16 1997
@@ -1884,8 +1884,11 @@
            bputs("misconfiguration and was unable to complete\n", fd);
            bputs("your request.<P>\n", fd);
            bputs("Please contact the server administrator,\n ", fd);
+           bputs("<A HREF=mailto:", fd);
            bputs(escape_html(r->pool, r->server->server_admin), fd);
-           bputs(" and inform them of the time the error occurred,\n",
fd);
+           bputs(">", fd);
+           bputs(escape_html(r->pool, r->server->server_admin), fd);
+           bputs("</A> and inform them of the time the error
occurred,\n", fd);            bputs("and anything you might have done that
may have\n", fd);
            bputs("caused the error.<P>\n", fd);
            break;


LLaP
bero

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Re: 1.2.1 problems with Linux/GLIBC (fwd)

[Dean Gaudet <dg...@arctic.org>]

Hi there,

On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, Rob Hartill wrote:

> 
> One for the linux gurus.
> 
> The suggestion is better off rejected IMO since ErrorDocument is there
> to allow infinite customisation, and sprucing up the default errors could
> be a never ending task as one more 'minor' change follows another.
> 
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 21:20:19 +0200 (MET DST)
> From: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <ro...@bero-online.ml.org>
> To: apache-bugs@apache.org
> Subject: 1.2.1 problems with Linux/GLIBC
> 
> Hello,
> there are a few minor problems when trying to compile Apache 1.2.1 with
> Linux 2.x and GLIBC 2.x:
> 
> 1) The crypt library (required with GLIBC) isn't included by default.
>    I'd like to fix this, but I haven't found a way to autoconf glibc yet.

Yes in the future we'll need to detect crypt, since we need it to work on
boxes without glibc as well.  You'll have to add -lcrypt to EXTRA_LIBS. 

> 2) buff.c includes <sys/uio.h>, which you can't do in GLIBC (redefinition)
>    Same thing here - the fix is easy, but I can't autoconf glibc.

I am very certain this is a glibc bug.  Every other unix I have access to
(and the linux man pages themselves) claim to require sys/uio.h in order
to use writev/readv, which makes me believe it's mandated by POSIX.  So
you should report this one to the glibc folks. 

Dean