Re: Having problems installing mod_perl on Slackware

[Fred Moyer <suppressed>]

Fred Moyer wrote:
> Eric Snyder wrote:
> > /usr/src/httpd-2.2.4/srclib/apr/include/apr_tables.h:25:17: apr.h: No 
> > such file or directory
> > In file included from 
> > /usr/src/httpd-2.2.4/srclib/apr/include/apr_pools.h:38,
> >                 from 
> > /usr/src/httpd-2.2.4/srclib/apr/include/apr_tables.h:26,
> >                 from 
> > /usr/src/httpd-2.2.4/srclib/apr-util/include/apr_hooks.h:22,
> >                 from /usr/src/httpd-2.2.4/include/ap_config.h:26,
> >                 from /usr/src/httpd-2.2.4/include/httpd.h:43,
> >                 from modperl_apache_includes.h:27,
> >                 from mod_perl.h:20,
> >                 from mod_perl.c:17:
> > /usr/src/httpd-2.2.4/srclib/apr/include/apr_errno.h:52: error: syntax 
> > error before "apr_strerror"
> > /usr/src/httpd-2.2.4/srclib/apr/include/apr_errno.h:53: error: syntax 
> > error before "apr_size_t"
> > /usr/src/httpd-2.2.4/srclib/apr/include/apr_errno.h:53: warning: data 
> > definition has no type or storage class
> >
> > What is wrong and how do I fix this?
>
> You're missing the apr development package.  I'm not familiar with 
> slackware so I can't say what exact package is missing, but if you 
> search your package tree there should be some apr packages.  Install 
> those, and you should be ok.

Erm, you installed from source so scratch my last.  Figure out where 
apr.h is and add MP_APR_CONFIG=/dir/to/apr/installation.  That directory 
should have an include and lib directory beneath it, and apr.h will be 
in the include directory.

HTH