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Notes 3.2.5 Build from Source

Building Apache from source may seem like a daunting task to newcomers, but the Apache
developers have done a wonderful job of making the task about as simple as could be. Just three
more commands than a binary installation and you skip the arduous task of figuring out which
binary is the right one for your particular operating system.
Point your browser at http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/ and download the gzip’d form of
the current version of Apache (2.0.36 at the time of this writing).

Now let’s uncompress that archive using gunzip and tar. You should replace the httpd-2.0.36.
tar.gz below with the name of the gzip’d file you downloaded.
gunzip < httpd-2.0.36.tar.gz | tar xvf – You should end up with an httpd-2.0.x directory, x being
the particular sub-version of Apache.

you downloaded. Move into the newly created directory. cd httpd-2.0.x.
Now we’ll use the configure and make commands to configure, make, and install Apache. If
you’ve not already done so, now would be the time to become root.

./configure
Your screen should look something like:

# ./configure
checking for chosen layout... Apache.

checking for working mkdir -p... yes.

checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu.
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu.

checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu.

Configuring Apache Portable Runtime library.
...

config.status: executing default commands

Unless errors were reported (not warnings), your Apache installation is now configured and we
can move on. This is where things get a bit ugly. Make’ing Apache produces screenfulls of output.

make
Your screen should look something like:

# make

Making all in srclib
make[1]: Entering directory ‘/home/ryan/dl/apache_guide/httpd-

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