apache and pcre

[Lukasz Dobrek]

Hallo:
According to this bug report:
http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27550

there exist a problem of apache linking itself with internal pcre
instead off with external one. This would not be a problem if
the symbols of this internal pcre ( version 3.9) weren't exported.
This renders unusable all modules which require pcre in newer version,
in case of my particular interest it is mod_caml.

The following patch on apache.spec adds bcond (with_external_pcre )
to pld spec which when turned on applies the following minimally
modified patch:
http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=13377

Both patch on apache.spec and patch which shall be put to
SOURCES are attached to this letter.

What do you thing about it? Is it sense full? I did it because
I wanted to play with mod_caml but I am very definitely not
an apache expert so it is more than probable that all of it is
bullshit.

Nice evening
Lukasz Dobrek

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--- apache.spec	2004-12-05 17:58:55.228222000 +0100
+++ apache.spec-pcre	2004-12-05 17:58:21.645327376 +0100
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@
 # Conditional build:
 %bcond_without	ssl		# build without SSL support
 %bcond_without	ldap		# build without LDAP support
+%bcond_with     external_pcre   # build with external PCRE support look at http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27550
+				# includes patch26.
 #
 %include	/usr/lib/rpm/macros.perl
 # this is internal macro, don't change to %%apache_modules_api
@@ -87,6 +89,8 @@
 Patch23:	%{name}-apr1.patch
 Patch24:	%{name}-normalize-path.patch
 Patch25:	%{name}-CAN-2004-0942.patch
+# http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=13377 external pcre
+Patch26:	%{name}2-pcre-patch.diff         
 URL:		http://httpd.apache.org/
 BuildRequires:	automake
 BuildRequires:	apr-devel >= 1:1.0.0
@@ -695,6 +699,7 @@
 %patch23 -p1
 %patch24 -p1
 %patch25 -p1
+%{?with_external_pcre:%patch26 -p2}
 
 %{__perl} -pi -e "s@/usr/local/bin/perl@%{__perl}@" $(grep -rl "/usr/local/bin/perl" *)
 %{__perl} -pi -e "s at BUILD_SUBDIRS.*@BUILD_SUBDIRS =@g" srclib/Makefile.in
@@ -781,7 +786,8 @@
 	--with-suexec-gidmin=500 \
 	--with-suexec-umask=077 \
 	--with-apr=%{_bindir}/apr-1-config \
-	--with-apr-util=%{_bindir}/apu-1-config
+	--with-apr-util=%{_bindir}/apu-1-config \
+	%{?_with_external_pcre:--with-external-pcre}
 %{__make}
 ./httpd.${mpm} -l | grep -v "${mpm}" > modules-inside
 

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