Build Frustrations

[Jerry McAllister]

On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 07:19:34PM -0500, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:

> All,
> 
> I'm of the realization that FreeBSD is a volunteer project, but there's a 
> recent issue I've hit, and I've contacted nearly EVERYONE I can think of 
> about it to try and fix, and the response I've gotten has been a deafening 
> silence.
> 
> I'm having trouble building apache2.2.6, it relates I feel to an 
> inconsitent libexpat library under FreeBSD, COMBINED with a badly made and 
> inconsistent apr port, and some libiconv incompatibilities.  I've emailed 
> ports maintainers, APR developers, the general apache mailing list, and 
> gotten nothing.
>
> ...
> 
> This is a post about building apache2.2 from scratch, not from ports -- 
> however it raises several issues with port-installed tools that lead me to 
> believe they may still be at fault.  I apologize in advance for the length 
> of this post, but having all the data is sometimes important.  I believe 
> it's reproducable but I don't have the spare machines to try on.
> 
> ...
> 
> 3) My big problem:
> 
> 
> I just tried to build apache 2.2.6 from scratch.
> 
> I, for various reasons of wanting to keep apache separate from other 
> things, for example, to virtualize my apache users, prefer everything in a 
> single dir -- so the ports route isn't for me.
> 

You can tell ports where to install something.  We used to install
all of Apache in its own directory to make it easy to manipulate
in a system we were installing in a lot of places.   Check the ports
doc and such.   

////jerry