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| Apache HTTP Server |
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| Platform specific notes: |
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| Darwin (OS X): |
| Apache 2.0 relies heavily on the use of autoconf and libtool to provide |
| a build environment. Darwin provides these tools, but they are |
| an earlier release, and for the most part, do not work well. |
| If you are interested in developing under Darwin, we recommend |
| that you obtain and install replacement versions of what are |
| normally installed on Darwin (and OS X, as of v10.1.4). If you |
| build your own versions of autoconf 2.52 and libtool 1.4.2, be |
| aware that there are some Darwin specific patchs to the official |
| code that still must be applied for them to fully work. A useful |
| page to check out is: |
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| http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/porting/libtool.php |
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| Pier Fumagalli also provides pre-built Darwin packages of the |
| patched autoconf and libtool suites, available at: |
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| http://www.apache.org/~pier/macosx/ |
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| You will note that GNU libtool should actually be installed as |
| glibtool, to avoid conflict with a Darwin program of the same |
| name. Pier's packages have this change already. All files are |
| installed under /usr/local/ so to use these versions, be sure that |
| /usr/local/bin is earlier in your PATH. |
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| There have been some reports that autoconf 2.52 prevents Apache's |
| build system from correctly handling passing multi-value envvars |
| to the build system (eg: CFLAGS="-g -O3" ./configure), causing |
| errors. Use of bash does not seem to help in this situation. If |
| this affects you, downgrading to autoconf 2.13 (which is installed |
| on Darwin) will help. |
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| FreeBSD: |
| autoconf 2.52 creates scripts that are incompatible with the Posix |
| shell implementation (/bin/sh) on FreeBSD. Be sure to use v2.13 |
| of autoconf. |
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