Re: make test fails -- PROBLEM SOLVED

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Stephen Jungels wrote:
> Bear with me for one last post on this subject in order to explain how the
> issue was resolved.  The issue did not turn out to be mod_perl-related, so
> this will be of interest mainly to owners of the Buffalo Linkstation.
> 
> So briefly, the underlying cause of the problem was a broken grep
> distributed with the linkstation.  The problem with this grep is that when
> it is invoked via a symlink as egrep, it does not switch into extended
> regular expression mode.  As a result, expressions like "echo GNU | egrep
> '(GNU|BFD)'" do not match, and the apache configure script does not
> recognize GNU ld as being GNU.  This causes a cascade of errors with the
> result that apache won't compile with shared objects.
> 
> The solution is to install GNU Grep 2.5.  Thanks to the list for pointing me
> in the right direction (ie away from mod_perl).

Cool, but where the problem was coming from? The httpd's ./configure which 
was running grep to make config decisions? If so you need to report this 
as a bug to httpd dev, since configure should check that you have the 
sufficiently good grep installed. (so in the future others won't get 
burned by the same problem). Thanks.


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