Bug 131876

Summary:	test_char.h missing in devel package, used by third party modules
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3	Reporter:	andreas.mack <andreas.mack>
Component:	httpd	Assignee:	Joe Orton <jorton>
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Description andreas.mack@konsec.com 2004-09-06 08:40:07 UTC

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Description of problem:
During the apache compilation, a header file is generated in
BUILD/httpd-2.0.46/prefork/server called test_char.h.
mod_auth_mda uses this header file and compilation
of this module will fail because of this missing header
file.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
httpd-devel-2.0.46-38.ent

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install httpd and httpd-devel
2. download, unpack mod_auth_mda (mod-apache2.tar) from
http://www.frogdot.org.
3. adjust makefile for includes, do a "make module" in the dist directory.
    

Actual Results:  Compile fails:
/usr/sbin/apxs -c -Wc,-Wall -I/usr/include/httpd/../main
-I/home/hwr/dev/apache/httpd-2.0.48/server mod_auth_mda.c
/usr/bin/libtool --silent --mode=compile gcc -prefer-pic -O2 -g -pipe
-march=i386 -mcpu=i686 -DSSL_EXPERIMENTAL_ENGINE
-I/usr/kerberos/include -DAP_HAVE_DESIGNATED_INITIALIZER -DLINUX=2
-D_REENTRANT -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D_BSD_SOURCE -D_SVID_SOURCE
-D_GNU_SOURCE -pthread -I/usr/include/httpd -Wall
-I/usr/include/httpd/../main
-I/home/hwr/dev/apache/httpd-2.0.48/server  -c -o mod_auth_mda.lo
mod_auth_mda.c && touch mod_auth_mda.slo
mod_auth_mda.c:24:23: test_char.h: No such file or directory
mod_auth_mda.c: In function `escape_str':
mod_auth_mda.c:289: `test_char_table' undeclared (first use in this
function)
mod_auth_mda.c:289: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
mod_auth_mda.c:289: for each function it appears in.)
mod_auth_mda.c:289: `T_ESCAPE_PATH_SEGMENT' undeclared (first use in
this function)


Expected Results:  Clean compile.

Additional info:

a. Workaround: 
 1. Download src package, run rpmbuild to %build stage.
 2. Adjust paths in Makefile of mod_auth_mda
 3. run make module
b. Possible resaon for not including the header file: the needed
functionality is in a call of the apache API. I was not able to
research this.

Comment 1 Joe Orton 2004-09-06 08:48:36 UTC

Thanks for the report.

Indeed, as you suggest, the test_char.h header is not a part of the
Apache httpd module API (it is not installed by "make install").  A
solution to this problem is for the mod_auth_mda package to include a
copy of the gen_test_char.c source, and to generate the header for
itself.  Can you take this issue up with the mod_auth_mda author?

Comment 2 andreas.mack@konsec.com 2004-09-06 09:15:01 UTC

Thanks for the ultra quick reply. I've already contacted the author.
He didn't answer yet, but it seems he works always with the sources
and builds from them.