building Mapserver on Gentoo: with-httpd

[Umberto Nicoletti]

I am running Gentoo linux too and can confirm that the path to httpd for
apache2 is:

/usr/sbin/apache2 (in path only for root)

Regards,
Umberto

On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 20:33, Daniel Morissette wrote:
> Jeff Kowalczyk wrote:
> > I'm trying to build mapserver on Gentoo linux, in preparation to attempt
> > an ebuild installation package for it. I have net-www/apache-2.0.52
> > installed.
> >
> > I need information on the expectation of the with-httpd argument:
> >
> > On Gentoo linux, and perhaps with httpd-2.x in general, there doesn't seem
> > to be an 'httpd' program etc. What is that argument looking for? With the
> > apr or axps options work instead (configure help says disabled)? Thanks.
> >
> > Here is the (abbreviated) Gentoo file manifest for an installed
> > apache-2.0.52:
> >
>
> Just omit it. The reason why --with-httpd was added was due to a bug in
> Apache2 that was fixed in Apache 2.0.49. In your case you have 2.0.52 so
> you shouldn't need it.
>
> For the benefits of the list archive, the --with-httpd argument expects
> the path to the httpd executable. I'm guessing that on Gentoo it seems
> to be /usr/sbin/apache2, so if you needed it then the argument would
> have been --with-httpd=/usr/sbin/apache2.
>
> Daniel
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