Re: old mod_perl (RC3) in FreeBSD 4.11

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Thanks for the reply Philip.

I'm really not a guru at FreeBSD. I think I can code in the 'old way' 
until everything is resolved. No pain on my side.


Philip M. Gollucci wrote:

> Foo Ji-Haw wrote:
>
>> As of today 1900 SGT, I did a ports cvsup on my FreeBSD to install a 
>> nice fresh setup of apache2+modperl2. Interestingly the ports 
>> collection shows RC3 still.
>>
>> I guess until the maintainer (lars.eggert@xxx.xxx 
>> <mailto:lars.eggert@xxx.xxx?cc=ports@xxxxxxx.xxx&subject=FreeBSD%20Port:%20mod_perl2-2.0.0r3,1>;) 
>> updates the port, we will have to make do with RC3? If so, will there 
>> be a conflict with libapreq2 2.04RC3?
>>
>> I was hoping to use Apache::DBI, but when I tried to install from the 
>> ports, it tries to install mp1. There aren't any p5-Apache2-DBI, so 
>> how are we able to install the Apache2::DBI (I'm assuming there is?)?
>>
> Its kind of iffy at the moment.  You are correct the ports are laggy 
> here specifically because of the mp2-RC5+ api change.
> The update was rolled back because all of the associated ports like 
> Apache::DBI for instance had not been updated yet making mp2RC5
> kind of pointless.
>
> You can always install from source.  It should be seemless.
>
> cd /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8
> make install distclean
>
> cd /usr/ports/www/apache2
> make ........
>
> dowload mp2
> and build
>
> Apache DBI you can download by searching the archives of this list. 
> I've posted one before.  I believe Ask is in the proccess
> of updating it per earlier e-mails.
>
>