Author: Andy Wang Date: To: dev Subject: Re: Apache 2.2.9 default bindist/apr library problem
William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > You can certainly do this; it reverts to apr-1.2 behavior.
>
> Sadly, mainline packages are exactly what the dso option was added for.
> When building httpd for the mass consumer, it's not possible to predict
> which of 6 sql, 4 db and ldap modules they will actually use. The
> combined
> footprint of these at runtime is asinine. I would think that in the case of a mainline package, the final
installation path would be predictable (at least if it's something like
a Linux distribution or something like that) so the apr-util-1 directory
would be the same as what it was configured/built for. > Of course; this is no different
> that a typical monolithic php build, and loading both, apr-util dso will
> save you little except for a few additional relocs since these libs were
> already slurped in ;-) Yeah, I think given the targeted use we bundle apache for the
"workaround" of using --disable-util-dso is really the solution for the
problem for us.
