Apache 2.2.8 make dies looking for libexpat.la

Infinity · 03-25-2008, 09:50 AM

I have apache 2.2.6 installed from the tarball and am attempting to make 2.2.8 using the same configure script from previous versions:

Code:

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache --enable-rewrite --enable-auth-anon --enable-auth-dbm --enable-auth-digest --enable-proxy --enable-so --with-perl=/usr/bin/perl

This is generating the following error when running make:

Code:

/usr/local/apache/build/libtool --silent --mode=link gcc -g -O2 -pthread        -o htpasswd  htpasswd.lo   -lm /home/myusername/Download/httpd-2.2.8/srclib/pcre/libpcre.la /usr/local/apache/lib/libaprutil-1.la -lsqlite3 -lexpat /usr/local/apache/lib/libapr-1.la -luuid -lrt -lcrypt -lpthread -ldl
libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/lib/libexpat.la'
make[2]: *** [htpasswd] Error 1

I noticed on the Fedora 8 RPM that "drop the .la file" occurred within the last year.
http://www.rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/fe....1-2.i386.html

So the question is, what do I need to do to get 2.2.8 to build?

weibullguy · 03-25-2008, 12:08 PM

IIRC expat is an optional dependency for Apache (as of 2.2.6 at least). Is there a --without-expat or similar option? Otherwise you're either going to need libexpat.la or to hack the Apache code.

Infinity · 03-25-2008, 01:18 PM

Expat is for XML processing so I'd rather keep that ability, especially for messing with SOAP in PHP.

Trying without-expat and statically linking htpasswd hasn't helped, either.

Infinity · 03-29-2008, 01:37 PM

Any other suggestions on how to get apache 2.2.8 to make without the error?

weibullguy · 03-29-2008, 02:43 PM

You need libexpat.la. If it's not in the RPM for your distro, then you'll have to build Expat build it from source I suppose.

Infinity · 05-14-2008, 02:10 PM

At some point the installation of other packages cleared this up for me, not sure why. I now have 2.2.8 running successfully.

TriZ · 10-06-2009, 09:09 AM

Just a comment for further users - I had the same error, solved just doing make install of the library in [apache source dir]/srclib/apr-util/xml/expat/lib.

mikemccune · 02-23-2010, 04:26 PM

The prior post was:

"Just a comment for further users - I had the same error, solved just doing make install of the library in [apache source dir]/srclib/apr-util/xml/expat/lib."

I did this, and it did not work. However, I cleared out the destination directory for Apache (the destination for "make install"), then I did a "make clean" and another "make". It got past the error the second time. I'm not sure why.