custom apache build fails on Red-Hat 3 Enterprise

[conficio]

Solved!

The rebuild of customapache does fail on red-Hat 3 Enterprise, because the build of gd, the graphics library fails. Reason, autoconf version 2.57 is too old. The build loops endlessly. Should probably throw an error.

Solution, go to http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/ and download a newer version of autoconf.

untar; cd folder; ./configure; make; make install

This will produce a newer version of autoconf. Rpm will still report the old and wrong version, but the gd build is happy.

 

[nobaloney]

Did you check to see if RHE3 publishes an update via RPM ?

Jeff

 

[conficio]

Yes and No

I did some research on rpmfind.net and it indicated that only redhat4 has a newer version as rpm. However the link to redhat was broken so I resolved to getting the source and compile it myself.

I have to admit I'm not a big expert in redhat ES, so I don't really where to officially look. I'm more trained in SuSE and now Ubuntu.

Sorry if I couldn't be more helpful.

Kaj

 

[nobaloney]

Try the CentOS repositories . They don't require a Red Hat membership. They work.

Jeff

 

[smtalk]

Autoconf is included into custombuild, you can take the code from it and install it manually, if you don't want to install custombuild.