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Date: 27 Dec 1998 05:05:35 -0000
From: Thomas Reilly <tom@pajato.com>
Reply-To: tom@pajato.com
To: apbugs@hyperreal.org
Subject: If you don't supply any configure arguments then config.status is bogus.
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>Number:         3590
>Category:       config
>Synopsis:       If you don't supply any configure arguments then config.status is bogus.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    apache
>State:          closed
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   apache
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Dec 26 21:10:00 PST 1998
>Last-Modified:  Sat Jan  2 05:20:25 PST 1999
>Originator:     tom@pajato.com
>Organization:
>Release:        1.3.3
>Environment:
N/A
>Description:
More specifically config.status omits a slash, the result of which is
that arguments are passed to the shell as separate commands instead of
configure arguments:

$ ./configure
./configure
Configuring for Apache, Version 1.3.3
 + Warning: Configuring Apache with default settings.
 + This is probably not what you really want.
 + Please read the README.configure and INSTALL files
 + first or at least run './configure --help' for
 + a compact summary of available options.
Creating Makefile
Creating Configuration.apaci in src
$ ./config.status --activate-module=src/modules/jserv/mod_jserv
./config.status --activate-module=src/modules/jserv/mod_jserv
Configuring for Apache, Version 1.3.3
 + Warning: Configuring Apache with default settings.
 + This is probably not what you really want.
 + Please read the README.configure and INSTALL files
 + first or at least run './configure --help' for
 + a compact summary of available options.
Creating Makefile
Creating Configuration.apaci in src
Creating Makefile in src
 + configured for Linux platform
 + setting C compiler to gcc
 + setting C pre-processor to gcc -E
 + checking for system header files
 + adding selected modules
 + doing sanity check on compiler and options
Creating Makefile in src/support
Creating Makefile in src/main
Creating Makefile in src/ap
Creating Makefile in src/regex
Creating Makefile in src/os/unix
Creating Makefile in src/modules/standard
./config.status: --activate-module=src/modules/jserv/mod_jserv: No such file or directory
>How-To-Repeat:
run configure with no arguments and run config.status with arguments
>Fix:
Figure out why the \ got lost.
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open-closed
State-Changed-By: rse
State-Changed-When: Sat Jan  2 05:20:24 PST 1999
State-Changed-Why:
Now fixed for Apache 1.3.4.
Thanks for your feedback.
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