Re: make test fails -- PROBLEM SOLVED

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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).

--Stephen




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