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335466db9e11d9713ddd2cdc4b8caf9c688e155aTinderbox User Darwin (OS X):

335466db9e11d9713ddd2cdc4b8caf9c688e155aTinderbox User Apache 2.0 relies heavily on the use of autoconf and libtool to provide

a build environment. Darwin provides these tools, but they are

an earlier release, and for the most part, do not work well.

If you are interested in developing under Darwin, we recommend

that you obtain and install replacement versions of what are

normally installed on Darwin (and OS X, as of v10.1.4). If you

build your own versions of autoconf 2.52 and libtool 1.4.2, be

aware that there are some Darwin specific patchs to the official

code that still must be applied for them to fully work. A useful

page to check out is:

http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/porting/libtool.php

Pier Fumagalli also provides pre-built Darwin packages of the

patched autoconf and libtool suites, available at:

http://www.apache.org/~pier/macosx/

You will note that GNU libtool should actually be installed as

glibtool, to avoid conflict with a Darwin program of the same

name. Pier's packages have this change already. All files are

installed under /usr/local/ so to use these versions, be sure that

/usr/local/bin is earlier in your PATH.

There have been some reports that autoconf 2.52 prevents Apache's

build system from correctly handling passing multi-value envvars

to the build system (eg: CFLAGS="-g -O3" ./configure), causing

errors. Use of bash does not seem to help in this situation. If

this affects you, downgrading to autoconf 2.13 (which is installed

on Darwin) will help.