I'm having very long nights trying to install mod_perl 1.99
against Apache 2.0.47 on OS X.2.8.
The mod_perl mailing list seems to have imploded
so if anybody has managed to get past the following error
on `make test' I'd be grateful to hear about it. 
waiting 120 seconds for server to start: .Syntax error on line 2164 of
+ /Users/phil/Desktop/modperl-2.0/t/conf/httpd.conf:
<Perl> directive missing closing '>'
......................................................................
+...................................................
waiting 120 seconds for server to start: not ok
[  error] giving up after 121 secs. If you think that your system
is slow or overloaded try again with a longer timeout value.
by setting the environment variable APACHE_TEST_STARTUP_TIMEOUT
to a high value (e.g. 420) and repeat the last command.

[  error] server failed to start! (t/logs/error_log wasn't created, st
+art the server in the debug mode)
+--------------------------------------------------------+
| Please file a bug report: http://perl.apache.org/bugs/ |
+--------------------------------------------------------+
make: *** [run_tests] Error 1

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I've set the env var for the timeout higher and done all the usual stuff
but no luck.
Any help appreciated.

In reply to mod_perl2 on OS X by phildobbin

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