My browser tells me that “It Works!” but it took a couple days of banging my head against the wall. I encountered the following rough spots and eventually stumbled over their solutions as noted:
1)
No libpcre
This is a pre-requisite for httpd, I did not have it. I downloaded version 8.30 from
www.pcre.org. The configure script ran OK, but the make failed with errors about libgcc missing, even though ‘rpm –aq’ indicated it was present. It was necessary to remove all the gcc, g++, and libstdc packages via ‘rpm –e’,
and then install them again in the following order:
libgcc-4.2.0-3.aix6.1.ppc.rpm
libstdcplusplus-4.2.0-3.aix6.1.ppc.rpm
libstdcplusplus-devel-4.2.0-3.aix6.1.ppc.rpm
gcc-cplusplus-4.2.0-3.aix6.1.ppc.rpm
These packages are all downloadable at:
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/aix/linux/toolbox/alpha.html
My ‘rpm –aq’ listing now includes:
libgcc-4.2.0-3
gcc-4.2.0-3
libstdc++-4.2.0-3
gcc-c++-4.2.0-3
libstdc++-devel-4.2.0-3
But I did NOT install any separate gcc-4.2.0-3 RPM, I think it just came along with the gcc-c++ package. Originally I had installed a separate gcc package, and I think that messed up the interface with libgcc.
2) Apache ‘make install’ fails with “install: File mod_authn_file.so was not found.”
This issue is discussed at length on the mailing list archives at:
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/httpd-dev/201202.mbox/%3CCAN9c_NSp8D9ifhb0FgSmfyKHqfQSFrmwuj+5przNZpqmp7v=zg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx%3E
but I did not see a resolution for it. Recommendations for work-arounds included compiling and installing the apache “apr” sopftware as a separate package, using an explicitly declared destination directory when running “make install”, and some other suggestions that I did not understand. None of them worked for me.
Instead, what make the install work for me was a suggestion from the README in the build/aix subdirectory. The scripts there are supposed to build an AIX installp package for apache. I didn’t try it, but they said that libtool did not work well with the AIX ‘install’ program, and to use the GNU one instead. I already had the GNU coreutils installed (also available from the above IBM site), so I set the PATH so that ‘which install’ returned /opt/freeware/bin/install.
After this, ‘make install’ ran just fine, and httpd runs for me and serves out the test page. I had already separated out the ‘apr’ stuff and installed it in /usr/local/apr and compiled apache separately, but out of curiosity I started over again, unpacking both httpd and httpd-deps into the same directory and running ‘configure’ with the “—with-included-apr” option, and that installed and runs just fine, too!
George
