Re: [Slashcode-general] Getting Bender working on RH 7.1

[Micah Y. <yo...@ho...>]

> Wait a sec - you *upgraded* from 6.2? So you didn't fdisk everything
> and install fresh?

Nope.  This is just a home system and I didn't want to re-install all my 
software (Corel, Loki Games, etc).  I figure the upgrade is supposed to go 
well, and it did except for this.

> Were you running apache/mod_perl/mysql from RPM or source?

Compiled it from source.  Slash doesn't like the default config.

> Are you trying to run apache/mod_perl/mysql from RPM or source now?

Source again.  First tried it without recompiling, was hoping that would 
work.  It failed saying it couldn't find strict.pm in @INC (which included 
the Perl 5.005 tree).  Not sure why that happened.

Recompiled, using these notes I made for myself.  This is what I did under 
6.2, and it successfully made an httpd with PHP4 and a Slash-happy mod_perl 
working together.  So in case anyone is still having that problem, here's the 
solution:
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In PHP directory:

  ./configure --with-pgsql=/usr/local/pgsql --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql 
--with-apache=/home/micah/slashstuff/apache_1.3.19 --enable-track-vars
  make
  make install

  In mod_perl directory:

  perl Makefile.PL APACHE_SRC=/home/micah/slashstuff/apache_1.3.19 DO_HTTPD=1 
USE_APACI=1 PERL_MARK_WHERE=1
  make
  make install

in Apache directory:

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache 
--activate-module=src/modules/php4/libphp4.a 
--activate-module=src/modules/perl/libperl.a 
--activate-module=src/modules/extra/mod_adbanners.o
make
make install
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> I just wiped my server at home from 6.0 (running 2.4.2) to 7.1.
> For the hell of it I'm trying to run with the RPM setup
> first, just to see if it works.

Good luck.  Let me know if it does!  I'd certainly prefer using RPM, but 
everything I've read indicates that Slash needs a custom mod_perl compile.

> BTW, incase anyone is reading this, things like zlib and expat
> are already installed in RPM format with 7.1.
> I'm installing perl libs now, then gonna go get some breakfest.
> But if anyone is interested in my findings, let me know, I
> can post them here or on slashcode.

Please do post them!

I just downloaded Progeny Debian last night and intend to put it on my other 
computer.  Maybe I'll have better luck getting it to work with that.

Thanks,
Micah