Configure: Error: mod_auth_digest (while insalling Apache2) 1

[rishath]

I have Solaris 8 and I am trying to install Apache 2. I downloaded the source from

http://www.sunfreeware.com

and while configuring the file, I got the following error with APR and mod_auth_digest

# ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache2 --enable-mods-shared=all --enable-speling=shared --enable-ssl=shared --with-ssl=/usr/local/ssl

checking for chosen layout... Apache
checking for working mkdir -p... yes
checking build system type... sparc-sun-solaris2.8
checking host system type... sparc-sun-solaris2.8
checking target system type... sparc-sun-solaris2.8

Configuring Apache Portable Runtime library ...

checking for APR... reconfig
configuring package in srclib/apr now
checking build system type... sparc-sun-solaris2.8
checking host system type... sparc-sun-solaris2.8
checking target system type... sparc-sun-solaris2.8
Configuring APR library
Platform: sparc-sun-solaris2.8
checking for working mkdir -p... yes
APR Version: 0.9.5
checking for chosen layout... apr
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables... 
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
Applying APR hints file rules for sparc-sun-solaris2.8
  setting CPPFLAGS to "-DSOLARIS2=8 -D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS -D_REENTRANT"
(Default will be unix)
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... no
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... no
checking for nawk... nawk
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-------
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checking whether to enable mod_access... shared (all)
checking whether to enable mod_auth... shared (all)
checking whether to enable mod_auth_anon... shared (all)
checking whether to enable mod_auth_dbm... shared (all)
checking whether to enable mod_auth_digest... checking dependencies
You need APR random support to use mod_auth_digest.
Look at APR configure options --with-egd and --with-devrandom.
checking whether to enable mod_auth_digest... configure: error: mod_auth_digest has been requested but can not be built due to prerequisite failures

Prior to installing Apache 2, I installed all the required stuff, like expat, libiconv, gdbm, openssl and gcc.
How can I recitify this? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

[siberian]

What happens if you use a standard release from

http://httpd.apache.org/

?

Can you build a more basic version like this:

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache2

then add on a line at a time until you find which entry is choking? I think its '--enable-mods-shared=all ' thats killing the build.

 

[rishath]

So, do you want me to first run

# ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache2

then,

# ./configure --enable-mods-shared=all

and then,

#./configure --enable-speling=shared

and so on... until I come to the problem area?


Also, one of the error message says

 You need APR random support to use mod_auth_digest. 
Look at APR configure options --with-egd and --with-devrandom.

What does it mean?

 

[siberian]

I was thinking more along the lines of configuring over and over again, each time adding a new option

So

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache2

then

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache2  --enable-mods-shared=all

etc etc

In terms of what is wrong, I am not sure if solaris has /dev/random and the standard apache package configure should check for that.

Here are some relevant google links, you could also just disable mod_auth_digest if you don't need it.

http://www.mail-archive.com/dev@httpd.apache.org/msg08891.html

http://ww.google.com/search?q=Solaris+APR+random++mod_auth_digest&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&start=0&sa=N

 

[rishath]

I tried the configure options, one at a time and the APR-mod_auth_digest error occured when I used

 # ./configure --enable-mods-shared=all

like you mentioned.

To overcome this I tried installing egd-0.8, which can generate seeds, as I do not have /dev/random in my system. But, I don't know how to use egd-0.8 to make my build successful. One of the articles on the net stated that I need to use --with-egd-pool=/etc/entropy configure option and also the egd daemon must be running in the background. While, I tried to run the egd daemon as

# perl egd.pl /etc/entropy

I got the error as

 SHA.pm not found in @INC(@INC include /usr/perl5 /usr/bin /usr/local/bin ...

I am not sure what to do next. Please help!

 

[siberian]

You need to install SHA.pm from CPAN to run that.

You can download it from

http://www.cpan.org/

Installation is easy, uncompress it, enter the directory and type

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

 

[rishath]

I installed a patch(Patch-Id# 112438-03) from

http://sunsolve.sun.com

as a subsititute for the /dev/random. After the patch installation, I rebooted my system and voila! now I'm able to install Apache 2 without any need to install EGD or PRNGD.

Thank you siberian for your previous tips!