[mod-security-users] Compiling ModSec 2.5.12 on RHEL5 (64bit)

[Superpizza <sup...@bi...>]

Hello everyone.
Im trying to compile the latest version of modsec on a RHEL5 box.
I've got a custom compiled version of apache (2.0.63) linked to latest PCRE
version (8.0.1).
Here is ldd output:
>ldd /usr/local/apachepcre/bin/httpd
libaprutil-0.so.0 => /usr/local/apachepcre/lib/libaprutil-0.so.0
(0x00002ad93ab41000)
        libexpat.so.0 => /usr/local/apachepcre/lib/libexpat.so.0
(0x00002ad93ad58000)
        libapr-0.so.0 => /usr/local/apachepcre/lib/libapr-0.so.0
(0x00002ad93af78000)

Here is pcre config version:
>/usr/local/pcre/bin/pcre-config --version
8.01


All that said, I tried to compile modsec this way:
/configure  --with-apxs=/usr/local/apachepcre/bin/apxs
--with-apr=/usr/local/apachepcre/bin/apr-config
--with-apu=/usr/local/apachepcre/bin/apu-config

But what I'm getting from the make command is:
>make
.......snipped
/usr/local/apachepcre/build/libtool --silent --mode=compile gcc -prefer-pic
-DAP_HAVE_DESIGNATED_INITIALIZER -DLINUX=2 -D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -g -O2
-pthread -I/usr/local/apachepcre/include  -I/usr/local/apachepcre/include
-I/usr/local/apachepcre/include  -O2 -g -Wall
-I/usr/local/apachepcre/include
-I/usr/local/pcre/include -I/usr/include/libxml2  -c -o msc_pcre.lo
msc_pcre.c
&& touch msc_pcre.slo
msc_pcre.c: In function 'msc_pregcomp_ex':
msc_pcre.c:74: error: invalid application of 'sizeof' to incomplete type
'pcre_extra'
msc_pcre.c:78: error: invalid application of 'sizeof' to incomplete type
'pcre_extra'
msc_pcre.c:97:2: warning: #warning This PCRE version does not support match
limits! Upgrade to at least PCRE v6.5.
msc_pcre.c:116:2: warning: #warning This PCRE version does not support match
recursion limits! Upgrade to at least PCRE v6.5.
apxs:Error: Command failed with rc=65536

I tried adding these directives:
./configure --with-pcre=/usr/local/pcre/bin/pcre-config
--with-apxs=/usr/local/apachepcre/bin/apxs
--with-apr=/usr/local/apachepcre/bin/apr-config
--with-apu=/usr/local/apachepcre/bin/apu-config --disable-pcre-study
--disable-pcre-match-limit-recursion --disable-pcre-match-limit

The result is the same.
Any clue?

Txs, Luca

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