Re: Problems using Apache::Test on Debian (and Ubuntu)

[Mark Hedges <ma...@gmail.com>]

Joachim Zobel wrote Wed, 21 Jun 2017 21:40:28 -0700:

> Hi.

> Just wanted to point out that as a workaround running as root worked for me (on debian stretch using cpan2deb).

> Sincerely,

> Joachim

I appreciate the feedback Joachim.  I am working on this problem now,
trying to get Apache2::Controller to test in Debian.

Can you provide more details about your workaround?  I tried `cpan2deb
Apache2::Controller` as root on a pristine stretch installation, but
it did not run the Apache::Test suite:

===============================
...
Needs the following debian packages during building:
libmodule-build-perl (>= 0.42), libapache2-mod-perl2 (>= 1.12),
libwww-perl, libhttp-cookies-perl, libmath-bigint-gmp-perl,
libnet-openid-server-perl, libhttp-server-simple-perl, liburi-perl
Using maintainer: root <ro...@weirdvibe.media>
Found docs: README.txt README.TODO
Using rules: /usr/share/dh-make-perl/rules.dh.tiny
Module::Build needs libmodule-build-perl
Module::Build needs perl
xdelta: warning: no matches found in from file, patch will apply without it
xdelta: warning: no matches found in from file, patch will apply without it
pristine-tar: committed
libapache2-controller-perl_1.1.1.orig.tar.gz.delta to branch
pristine-tar
make: Entering directory '/tmp/wtf/Apache2-Controller-v1.1.1'
dh clean
   dh_testdir
   dh_auto_clean
   dh_clean
make: Leaving directory '/tmp/wtf/Apache2-Controller-v1.1.1'
make: Entering directory '/tmp/wtf/Apache2-Controller-v1.1.1'
dh build
   dh_testdir
   dh_update_autotools_config
   dh_auto_configure
perl -I. Build.PL --installdirs vendor --config "optimize=-g -O2
-fdebug-prefix-map=/tmp/wtf/Apache2-Controller-v1.1.1=.
-fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time
-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2" --config "ld=x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -g -O2
-fdebug-prefix-map=/tmp/wtf/Apache2-Controller-v1.1.1=.
-fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security
-Wl,-z,relro"
Created MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json
Creating new 'Build' script for 'Apache2-Controller' version 'v1.1.1'
   dh_auto_build
perl Build
Building Apache2-Controller
   dh_auto_test
perl Build test --verbose 1
/usr/bin/perl -I /tmp/wtf/Apache2-Controller-v1.1.1/blib/lib -I
/tmp/wtf/Apache2-Controller-v1.1.1/blib/arch t/TEST -clean
[warning] setting ulimit to allow core files
ulimit -c unlimited; /usr/bin/perl
/tmp/wtf/Apache2-Controller-v1.1.1/t/TEST -clean
/usr/bin/perl -I /tmp/wtf/Apache2-Controller-v1.1.1/blib/lib -I
/tmp/wtf/Apache2-Controller-v1.1.1/blib/arch t/TEST -bugreport
-verbose=1
[warning] setting ulimit to allow core files
ulimit -c unlimited; /usr/bin/perl
/tmp/wtf/Apache2-Controller-v1.1.1/t/TEST -bugreport -verbose=1
apache2: Could not open configuration file /etc/apache2/httpd.conf: No
such file or directory
[  error] Apache cannot spawn child processes as root, therefore the
test suite must be run as a non-privileged user.
   create-stamp debian/debhelper-build-stamp
make: Leaving directory '/tmp/wtf/Apache2-Controller-v1.1.1'
make: Entering directory '/tmp/wtf/Apache2-Controller-v1.1.1'
dh binary
   create-stamp debian/debhelper-build-stamp
   dh_testroot
   dh_prep
   dh_auto_install
perl Build install --destdir
/tmp/wtf/Apache2-Controller-v1.1.1/debian/libapache2-controller-perl
--create_packlist 0
Building Apache2-Controller
Installing /tmp/wtf/Apache2-Controller-v1.1.1/debian/libapache2-controller-perl/usr/share/perl5/Apache2/Controller.pm
...
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As you can see, we ran into the same errors here that the original
message thread poster noted:

apache2: Could not open configuration file /etc/apache2/httpd.conf: No
such file or directory
[  error] Apache cannot spawn child processes as root, therefore the
test suite must be run as a non-privileged user.

If you were able to get the Apache::Test suite to run in any library
that uses mod_perl2 and Apache::Test, can you please share the details
of what you did?

Incidentally, this seems like a broader problem in the vendor, both
Debian and Ubuntu.  If their system is building packages from source
packages as root, any packaged CPAN library that uses Apache::Test is
not actually being tested in the build stage, even though it looks
like it works because the process completes successfully.  It should
really bail there at the [error] stage and say "I can't do this."

Thanks.

Mark

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