os-windows/8794: Missing DLL when starting Apache

[Joachim Durchholz <jo...@halstenbach.de>]

>Number:         8794
>Category:       os-windows
>Synopsis:       Missing DLL when starting Apache
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    apache
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   apache
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Nov 18 03:50:00 PST 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     joachim.durchholz@halstenbach.de
>Release:        1.3.22 (Cygwin)
>Organization:
apache
>Environment:
Cygwin 1.3.5-1 on NT 4 PL 6 (NT Patchlevel is a guess)
>Description:
Starting Apache with "apachectl start" will give a Windows message box reporting "Windows cannot locate libhttpd.dll in the PATH", and the full path (wording differs).
>How-To-Repeat:
Install Cygwin and Apache for Cygwin.
>Fix:
As a temporary fix, I have added the following line to the top of my apachectl script:
PATH=/usr/local/apache/libexec:$PATH
Note that the -R option in the HTTP= line cannot work, since the Apache executable is linked in a way that it requests that its DLLs are loaded on start-up.

I suspect that the build process uses the wrong flags for linking the DLL. I noticed that the recent release notes for Cygwin mentioned some ld issues, but I haven't taken a closer look.
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