4 Platform specific notes:
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9 Apache 2.0 relies heavily on the use of autoconf and libtool to provide
10 a build environment. Darwin provides these tools, but they are
11 an earlier release, and for the most part, do not work well.
12 If you are interested in developing under Darwin, we recommend
13 that you obtain and install replacement versions of what are
14 normally installed on Darwin (and OS X, as of v10.1.4). If you
15 build your own versions of autoconf 2.52 and libtool 1.4.2, be
16 aware that there are some Darwin specific patchs to the official
17 code that still must be applied for them to fully work. A useful
20 http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/porting/libtool.php
22 Pier Fumagalli also provides pre-built Darwin packages of the
23 patched autoconf and libtool suites, available at:
25 http://www.apache.org/~pier/macosx/
27 You will note that GNU libtool should actually be installed as
28 glibtool, to avoid conflict with a Darwin program of the same
29 name. Pier's packages have this change already. All files are
30 installed under /usr/local/ so to use these versions, be sure that
31 /usr/local/bin is earlier in your PATH.
33 There have been some reports that autoconf 2.52 prevents Apache's
34 build system from correctly handling passing multi-value envvars
35 to the build system (eg: CFLAGS="-g -O3" ./configure), causing
36 errors. Use of bash does not seem to help in this situation. If
37 this affects you, downgrading to autoconf 2.13 (which is installed
42 autoconf 2.52 creates scripts that are incompatible with the Posix
43 shell implementation (/bin/sh) on FreeBSD. Be sure to use v2.13