Re: [Modcaml] Fwd: apache2 and mod_caml

[Richard Jones]

On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 04:19:36PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
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> Hi,
> I'm trying to re-compile the experimental debian package I found on
> alioth.debian.org with apache2. Following the suggestion from Joel, I
> commented out user and auth_type from the conn_rec structure that are
> not part of the API of apache2 (is is just ok to remove these two fields
> ?). 

I'm going to take a look at mod_caml, but not soon.  It first requires
all of the OCaml packages waiting to go into Fedora to get reviewed
and approved, which is taking a painfully long time.

> Now I get a linking problem. I'm missing a library... but which one ?

Looks like either libapr or libap (or both).

> I want to use mod_caml with cduce or if this is not possible to use the
> same code base to build a mod_cduce... 

Should be possible to use them together, although I haven't tried it.

> Is there any reason why this package was never accepted in debian ?

It needs a sponsor.  It's in pkg-ocaml-maint (built against Apache 1.3).

Rich.

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Richard Jones
Red Hat