Bug 37019

Summary:	need way to build static mod_perl with portage
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) <agaffney>
Component:	[OLD] Unspecified	Assignee:	Gentoo Perl team <perl>
Status:	RESOLVED CANTFIX
Severity:	normal	CC:	web-apps
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-01-02 06:42:19 UTC

There is currently no way using portage to create a static mod_perl linked with the apache binary. Certain packages like HTML-Mason *require* mod_perl to be static instead of a DSO. Is there a way the mod_perl ebuild can be modified to build a static mod_perl if the "static" USE flag is in effect? I've written a few simple ebuilds before, but I don't have enough experience to do this myself.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 eric sammer 2004-01-03 20:59:59 UTC

I'll assume you're referring to MP 1.x series as MP 2 is meant to be a DSO.

Currently, this doesn't seem possible as the only real way to do this is to add a local mod_perl use flag to apache that, if set, drags in the mod_perl source and builds it under the guise of apache. This could be done and dev-perl/mod_perl could be fulfilled as a virtual. In that instance, it might work, but it would add a certain level of complexity to the situation and potentially cause problems with numerous other ebuilds. On top of this, it could only be done with apache-1.* series ebuilds.

Comment 2 Michael Cummings (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-08-05 18:41:10 UTC

Outside our scope for the time being.

Comment 3 arona 2007-04-11 15:41:52 UTC

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