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Posted to dev@httpd.apache.org by "Ralf S. Engelschall" <rs...@engelschall.com> on 1998/03/05 16:16:15 UTC

Re: cvs commit: apache-1.3/src/modules/standard mod_auth_db.module mod_auth_dbm.c mod_rewrite.c

In article <19...@hyperreal.org> you wrote:
> dgaudet     98/03/05 04:42:39

>   Modified:    src/helpers TestCompile
>                src/modules/standard mod_auth_db.module mod_auth_dbm.c
>                         mod_rewrite.c
>   Added:       src/helpers find-dbm-lib
>   Log:
>   It seems foolish for two standard distribution modules to disagree about
>   something as simple as dbm support.  But they did because mod_rewrite's
>   config section gets run before mod_auth_dbm's.
>   
>   They don't disagree any longer.  And I think this deals with the complaint
>   you sent me in private mail Ralf... re: "TestCompile lib foo" doesn't really
>   check if a function can be compiled, it just checks if the lib exists.  Now
>   TestCompile lib is one step closer to what autoconf does.

Yeah, great. Thanks, Dean. 
This is a lot better than the heuristics of the past.

                                       Ralf S. Engelschall
                                       rse@engelschall.com
                                       www.engelschall.com