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Date:      Fri, 08 Aug 2014 07:35:16 -0700
From:      Patrick Powell <papowell@astart.com>
To:        Jie Gao <J.Gao@sydney.edu.au>
Cc:        olli hauer <ohauer@gmx.de>, ports@freebsd.org, Kurt Jaeger <lists@opsec.eu>, Steve Hay <steve.m.hay@googlemail.com>, "modperl@perl.apache.org" <modperl@perl.apache.org>
Subject:   Re: Apache 24 + mod_perl
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Hmmm... well, it looks like you need to update the procedures from 
RedHat which build the mod_perl.
I don't think you can build a FreeBSD port on a Linux system, although 
stranger things have happened.

On 08/06/14 19:43, Jie Gao wrote:
> The patch, or rather the patching itself, does not work with a box of
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.5 for me here.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jie
>
> * Patrick Powell <papowell@astart.com> wrote:
>
>> Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 17:27:15 -0700
>> From: Patrick Powell <papowell@astart.com>
>> To: olli hauer <ohauer@gmx.de>
>> CC: Steve Hay <steve.m.hay@googlemail.com>, Kurt Jaeger <lists@opsec.eu>,
>>   ports@freebsd.org, "modperl@perl.apache.org" <modperl@perl.apache.org>
>> Subject: Re: Apache 24 + mod_perl
>> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130714
>>   Thunderbird/17.0.7
>>
>> On 08/06/14 14:34, olli hauer wrote:
>>> On 2014-08-06 22:45, Patrick Powell wrote:
>>>> On 08/06/14 00:19, Steve Hay wrote:
>>>>> On 3 August 2014 22:13, Patrick Powell <papowell@astart.com> wrote:
>>>>>> On 08/03/14 08:25, olli hauer wrote:
>>>>>>> On 2014-08-01 23:34, Kurt Jaeger wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hi!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Question:  when will mod_perl be available for Apache 24?
>>>>>>>> There's a PR where people are discussing this:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=191471
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> This PR needs more testers etc.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I've updated the PR with a patch against the latest mod_perl trunk
>>>>>>> revision (r1602105).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The patch against the port can be grabbed from here or from our bugzilla
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://people.freebsd.org/~ohauer/diffs/apache/mod_perl2-2.0.8_apache24.diff
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Please test *at own risk*, and report issues to upstream and here so we
>>>>>>> can integrate fresh upstream fixes and update the port.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The first proposed patch will allows the port to build but I have to many
>>>>>>> concerns for integrating this simple fix into the tree.
>>>>>>> I don't believe the first patch on the PR will work right else it would
>>>>>>> take the upstream dev. work and time for mod_perl2 at absurdI -um ...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have taken a slightly different approach,   using the mod_perl2 SVN
>>>>>> ..../httpd24 branch as the starting point.
>>>>>>
>>>>> The httpd24 branch is obselete. It was used for the initial
>>>>> development of httpd-2.4 support, but was superseded by
>>>>> httpd24threading, and since then everything from both branches has
>>>>> been merged back to trunk.
>>>>>
>>>>> The current trunk is largely ready for a 2.0.9 release supporting
>>>>> httpd-2.4, pending some more testing and fixes as necessary.
>>>>>
>>>> I tried using the trunk a couple of days ago and it did not compile.  Just to make sure
>>>> that I am using the right SVN respository and branch, what is the URL of the trunk SVN repository?
>>>> I am more than happy to try testing mod_perl.
>>>>
>>> Hm, with the following patch applied to www/mod_perl2 it builds fine for me on FreeBSD 8.4 / 10.0 (amd64) an apache-2.4.10
>>> http://people.freebsd.org/~ohauer/diffs/apache/mod_perl2-2.0.8_apache24.diff
>>>
>>> The patch does some adjustments in the port / pkg-plist and fetches a complete archive containing all patches so the sources are the same as the upstream (r1602105) trunk/httpd24threade branch.
>>>
>>> After applying the patch and using the command `make patch' it is easy to compare the sources against upstream sources (check out before)
>>> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/perl/modperl/branches/httpd24threading
>>> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/perl/modperl/trunk
>>>
>>>
>>> Easiest way to apply the patch against the unmodified port:
>>>
>>> $ cd www/mod_perl2
>>> $ fetch http://people.freebsd.org/~ohauer/diffs/apache/mod_perl2-2.0.8_apache24.diff
>>> $ patch -p1 < mod_perl2-2.0.8_apache24.diff
>>>
>>> PS:
>>> I've updated the patch because it needs some additional handling for pkg-plist if build against apache-2.2.x (Provider.pm/Provider.so)
>>>
>>>
>> I tried your procedure (see above).  The patch applied, I was able
>> to compile the mod_perl,
>> and  'make test' ran and it passed all of the critical tests.
>>
>> I then ran some more of my tests for the functionality it used.
>> These passed.
>>
>> I would say that unless somebody else comes up with a problem that I
>> would use this as a baseline
>> for distribution/installation.
>>
>> That is,  I would put up the modified Makefile,  with a warning, but
>> would allow people
>> to make/install it by specifying an option such as "make IGNORE_WARNING=yes"
>>
>> Of course, the FreeBSD Ports team may have different views on
>> this... but until the upstream mod_perl team puts out mod_perl-2.0.9
>> officially I think that this is the best we can do.  Also,  some
>> more testers will be able to try it out and report any problems....




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