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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hi again,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">When I check for missing dependancies it does not look as bad as I first thought:</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">perl sbin/rt-test-dependencies --with-myself --with-modperl1 |grep MISSING</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> Apache::Request ...MISSING</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">So I try to do a perl -MCPAN -e 'install Apache::Request' and it tells me</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">mod_perl 1.x ( < 1.99) is required at Makefile.PL line 29.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at Makefile.PL line 31.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">It seems my RH 9 box has (rpm -qa |grep mod_perl) mod_perl-1.99_07-5 on.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">CPAN tries to install libapreq 1.3. So I tried the latest libapreq2-2.02-dev </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">perl Makefile.PL --with-apache2-apxs=/usr/sbin/apxs</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">This complains that my apache is not new enough?:</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">apxs:Error: Invalid query string `APR_BINDIR'.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">apxs:Error: Invalid query string `APU_BINDIR'.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">build/version_check.pl failed: apache2 version 2.0.40 unsupported (2.0.46 or greater is required).</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">configure: error: Bad apache2 version</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">So, do I upgrade apache or downgrade mod_perl? I cant alter too much stuff as this box does a lot of other things. Is there an easy solution to this?</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Thanks</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Mike</FONT>
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