SPECS: lstat.spec - apache-mod_auth _is_ required for building lstat.

[Jakub Bogusz]

On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 01:52:19PM +0100, Paweł Gołaszewski wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Jakub Bogusz wrote:
> > > Author: blues                        Date: Wed Nov 17 12:35:19 2004 GMT
> > > Module: SPECS                         Tag: HEAD
> > > ---- Log message:
> > > - apache-mod_auth _is_ required for building lstat.
> > What for? Fix it. Daemons shouldn't (or better, we could made it "must
> > not" rule) be required in builder environment.
> 
> Without that lstat will not know where to look for htpasswd.
> Dropping of that BR is not solution.
> The Right Way(TM) is to patch lstat to have some befault if none binary is 
> found.

This perlish configure must be hacked to allow passing command paths.
If it were autoconf configure, passing HTPASSWD=/usr/sbin/htpasswd would
do.

BTW: why htpasswd is installed in /usr/sbin?
It's often used by users, not root.


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Jakub Bogusz    http://cyber.cs.net.pl/~qboosh/