I'm having the same problem. (Also on Ubuntu 9.04 with Apache2 & mod_perl2)

I've installed all these:

libapache2-mod-perl2
libapache2-mod-perl2-dev
apache2-prefork-dev
libapreq2-dev
libapreq2
libapache2-request-perl
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But I'm still seeing this:

CPAN: File::Temp loaded ok (v0.18)

  CPAN.pm: Going to build J/JO/JOESUF/libapreq2-2.12.tar.gz

perl: 5.10.0 ok
mod_perl2: 2.000004 ok
Apache::Test: 1.31 ok
ExtUtils::MakeMaker: 6.42 ok
ExtUtils::XSBuilder: 0.28 ok
Test::More: 0.88 ok
./configure --enable-perl-glue --with-perl-opts="INSTALLDIRS=site" --w
+ith-apache2-apxs="/usr/bin/apxs2" --with-perl="/usr/bin/perl"
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... no

[snip]

checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles..
+. no
Can't open perl script "INSTALLDIRS=site": No such file or directory
configure: error: Bad apache2 binary (/usr/sbin/apache2)
Warning: No success on command[/usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=s
+ite]
  JOESUF/libapreq2-2.12.tar.gz
  /usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=site -- NOT OK
Running make test
  Make had some problems, won't test
Running make install
  Make had some problems, won't install
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Any pointers would be gratefully received, this is driving me nuts.

You almost had it. I would run ./configure like this:

./configure --prefix=/some/site --enable-perl-glue --with-apache2-apxs=/usr/bin/apxs --with-perl=/usr/bin/perl

How can I set such that the Apache2/Cookie.pm, Request.pm and Upload.pm would be installed to /some/site instead of the lib location of the perl binary (defined in --with-perl above). using --prefix did not work. It tried to install to lib directory of the perl specified by --with-perl. -Indra

This is suspicious Can't open perl script "INSTALLDIRS=site" INSTALLDIRS=site is an argument for Makefile.PL, not perl

You should break out of CPAN, I think

CPAN> look libapreq2
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or with cpanplus

cpanp z libapreq2
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and run

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
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manually

Thanks so much - I guess I'll never know why I couldn't install via CPAN, but using cpanplus and your manual install technique, it seems to have worked.

Thanks.

Hello Monks. New here as a monk but have been a reader in the past...

I ran in to this problem too. Having had a look at the Makefile.PL sourcecode, I see the problem is due to the way Makefile.PL interfaces with configure. I've sent the following message to apreq-dev@httpd.apache.org:

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I've been trying to install libapreq2-2.12 using the following command:

perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor --with-apache2-apxs=/blah
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This fails because Makefile.PL assumes that options passed to it that are not recognised are Perl options rather than Makefile.PL options (line 54).

This results in configure being invoked as:

./configure --enable-perl-glue --with-perl-opts=INSTALLDIRS=vendor --w
+ith-apache2-apxs=/blah/apxs --with-perl=/blah/perl
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This leads to the configure script trying to run the following command at line 19493:

perl INSTALLDIRS=vendor build/version_check.pl
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that then fails...

Does anyone think it would be possible to enable the Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor for this package? I appreciate that the distribution uses a somewhat non-standard way to install the modules.

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I'll post anything I hear back about this question. In the meantime I've just not passed the INSTALLDIRS option to Makefile.PL - not ideal in my situation, but at least it allows me to install the modules.

Simon

This problem has problem been solved but I ran into this situation on Debian. Whenever you run into problems installing Perl modules, the best thing to do is get out of CPAN and just read the errors. Here's the solution for getting Apache2::Request on Debian Lenny 64-bit. To get Apache2::Request to work I had to install the following using apt apt-get install apache2-threaded-dev libapache2-mod-perl2-dev And then I had to install the Perl Mod: ExtUtils::XSBuilder::ParseSource

I went through the tedious procedure for installing Apache2::Request by doing the whole thing in the source directory of libapreq2* and thought do post this with more details to help others in the similiar situation. 1. installing apache2-threaded-dev for getting "apxs2" binary installed. I also have to change the "apxs" binary name in "configure" script to "apxs2" to pass the configuration process. 2. installing apache2-mod-perl2-dev for problems encountered during the "make" process where mod_perl.h, modperl_perl_unembed.h and other header files are needed. 3. installing ExtUtils::XSBuilder::ParseSource is pretty staight forward and can be done in cpan environment without problem. Thanks