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  • From: "Eric Sandall" <eric AT sandall.us>
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  • Subject: Re: [SM-Grimoire]Apache 2 modules
  • Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 13:01:48 -0800 (PST)

All,

apache2 is set up to query the user for what modules he/she wants to have
compiled, rather than going through and compiling everything, thus wasting
time and space. Most of the modules default to "y" (IIRC, if not, my bad,
and we should change it to be so), so you can just hit "ENTER" or leave
alone and you'll get a standard install. I rewrote the apache2 CONFIGURE
and DEPENDS so that one would have more options when compiling, since
that's partly what this distro is about, yes? Then submitted it to
Justin. The reason I did this (and took some time, too ;)) was because I
wanted to have more control over my Apache install. I was thinking of
submitting a similar setup for apache, but I don't use it, and so wouldn't
be able to test.

I believe this is the setup that _all_ spells should use, allowing the
user to say "yay", or "nay", to every option which that program has in
"./configure --help" specifically for itself (i.e. _not_ --prefix,
--with-x-includes, etc.). This will allow the most customization, and
fully utilize the base of our distro, compiling from source. Otherwise,
it will be fairly similar to using a binary distro, except that all the
binaries will be compiled with your optimizations, but not your options.
Some spells allow you to choose a few things, and this is good, but I'd
like the user to be able to choose everything, such as the apache2 spell
purveys.

Thoughts?

-One of Four
a.k.a. sandalle

Ryan Abrams said:
> Can we create a menu of the various options so users can pick rather
> than having to research the various config options? At that point they
> may as well build it themselves.
>
> Doesnt apache 1 build all included modules by default, and just require
> the user to enable them in httpd.conf? Why doesnt apache2 do this?
>
> I guess I agree with the original poster - why isn't configuring modules
> and such either automatic or part of the spell? It would sure be nice.
>
> -Ryan

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