Re: [RELEASE CANDIDATE] Apache-Test-1.43 RC1

[Steve Hay <st...@googlemail.com.INVALID>]

On Tue, 26 Oct 2021 at 08:28, Steve Hay <st...@googlemail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 15 Oct 2021 at 21:33, Edward J. Sabol <ed...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Oct 15, 2021, at 4:26 AM, Steve Hay <st...@apache.org> wrote:
>> > As a preliminary to making a new mod_perl release, I am updating
>> Apache-Test.
>> >
>> > Please download, test, and report back on this Apache-Test 1.43 release
>> candidate.
>> >
>> > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/perl/Apache-Test-1.43-rc1.tar.gz
>>
>> INSTALL says to "perl Makefile.PL -httpd /path/to/your/apache/bin/httpd",
>> but I found I had to
>>
>> perl Makefile.PL -httpd /path/to/your/apache/bin/httpd -apxs
>> /path/to/your/apache/bin/apxs
>>
>> or else "make test" reported a lot of "APXS (/usr/sbin/apxs) query for
>> SBINDIR failed" errors.
>>
>> Obviously, /usr/sbin/apxs != /path/to/your/apache/bin/apxs for my httpd
>> installation.
>>
>> Well, after I "perl Makefile.PL -httpd /path/to/your/apache/bin/httpd
>> -apxs /path/to/your/apache/bin/apxs", I encountered the following:
>>
>> waiting 60 seconds for server to start: .AH00526: Syntax error on line 12
>> of /path/to/tests/Apache-Test-1.43-rc1/t/conf/httpd.conf:
>> Invalid command 'User', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not
>> included in the server configuration
>> [  error]
>> server has died with status 255 (t/logs/error_log wasn't created, start
>> the server in the debug mode)
>> sh: line 1: 39154 Terminated              /path/to/perl
>> /path/to/tests/Apache-Test-1.43-rc1/t/TEST -bugreport -verbose=0
>>
>> The first non-comment lines in t/conf/httpd.conf are
>>
>> User    "<my_userid>"
>> Group    "<my_primary_group>"
>>
>> I'm using Apache 2.4.41. If I try to edit t/conf/httpd.conf to comment
>> out these lines or to add "LoadModule unixd_module modules/mod_unixd.so" so
>> that the httpd.conf will work, my changes just get destroyed the next time
>> I "make test". Frustrating.
>>
>> Also, It would be nice if Apache::Test would skip trying to "ulimit -c
>> unlimited" if $LOGNAME != "root" in order to avoid the following message:
>>
>> sh: line 0: ulimit: core file size: cannot modify limit: Operation not
>> permitted
>>
>> If only root should "make test", then the INSTALL instructions should say
>> to use sudo or something.
>>
>>
> Thanks for testing, and apologies for not getting back to you sooner.
>
> Unfortunately, I don't know anything about building Apache/mod_perl on
> *nix systems, and was hoping that someone else might step in with some
> answers here.
>
> Do you get the same behaviour with Apache-Test-1.42, or are these new
> problems in 1.43-rc1?
>
> If the problems are not new then I'm inclined to leave them for now
> (assuming I can get some +1s from voters on releasing this) and look at
> addressing them for the next release. The purpose of this release was
> really just to update Apache-Test in mod_perl to the current version before
> making a long-overdue release of that.
>
>
+1 from me, using VS2019 (v16.9.4) x64 on Windows 10, Perl 5.34.0, Apache
httpd 2.4.51, mod_perl from SVN (r1894283), libapreq2-2.16, with and
without LWP installed.

(For me the build works just doing "perl Makefile.PL && nmake &&
nmake test" after setting my perl.exe and httpd.exe folders in the %PATH%.)

Still looking for more +1s...