Re: Fail to configure mod_perl and build apache

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On 30/10/2004, at 7:19 AM, Stas Bekman wrote:

> CN wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> Because "perl Makefile.PL" did not find LWP::UserAgent and
>> HTML::HeadParser in my Debian box, I did "apt-get install
>> libapache-mod-perl". Then I did "dpkg -P libapache-mod-perl" to remove
>> that package. Since then "perl Makefile.PL" seems to have trouble as 
>> it
>> complains "cat: ../apache_1.3.32/src/Makefile.config: No such file or
>> directory":
>
> Unless someone on Debian can help you with the specific of those 
> packages,

Well, I'll try...

> I'd suggest that you download the source and build everything by 
> yourself
> as explained here:

...because this always seems to lead to a world of pain, in the end (as 
the
next time you try to install a package that depends on one of the ones 
you've
built yourself, you have to resort to twisting the packaging system's 
arm).

First suggestion: use aptitude, not apt-get. aptitude shows you the 
packages
that are recommended by the package you are installing, as well as those
upon which it absolutely depends.

Second suggestion: CPAN packages in debian are named consistently. If 
you
have a CPAN package called Foo::Bar, the debian package of it will be 
called
libfoo-bar-perl. There are a few confusing ones, such as LWP. Try
libwww-perl.

Third suggestion: Even if you want to rebuild a package which is in 
Debian,
start off with the Debian package sources ("apt-get source foo"). That 
way,
you end up with a packaged version of the thing, and any idiosyncracies
needed to build it on Debian.



Cheers,


Nick


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