Most Apache users won’t have to bother with this section at all. However, you can specify extra compiler flags (for instance, optimization commands), libraries, or includes by giving values to the following :
EXTRA_CFLAGS= EXTRA_LDFLAGS= EXTRA_LIBS= EXTRA_INCLUDES=
Configure will try to guess your operating system and compiler; therefore, unless things go wrong, you won’t need to uncomment and give values to these:
#CC= #OPTIM=-02 #RANLIB=
The rules in the Configuration file allow you to adapt for a few exotic configuration problems. The syntax of a rule in Configuration is as follows:
Rule RULE =valueThe possible values are as follows:
yes
Configure does what is required.
default
Configure makes a best guess.
Any other value is ignored.
The Rule s are as follows:
STATUS
If yes, and Configure decides
that you are using the status module, then full status information is
enabled. If the status module is not included, yes
has no effect. This is set to yes by default.
SOCKS4
SOCKS
is a firewall traversal protocol that requires client-end processing.
See http://ftp.nec.com/pub/security/socks.cstc.
If set to yes, be sure to add the SOCKS library
location to EXTRA_LIBS; otherwise,
Configure assumes L/usr/local/lib
-lsocks. This allows Apache to make outgoing SOCKS
connections, which is not something it normally needs to do, unless
it is configured as a proxy. Although the very latest version of
SOCKS is SOCKS5, SOCKS4 clients work fine with it. This is set to
no by default.
SOCKS5
If you want to use a SOCKS5 client library, you must use this rule
rather than SOCKS4. This is set to
no by default.
IRIXNIS
If Configure decides that you are running SGI
IRIX, and you are using NIS, set this to yes. This
is set to no by default.
IRIXN32
Make IRIX use the n32 libraries rather than the o32 ones. This is set
to yes by default.
PARANOID
During Configure, modules can run shell
commands. If PARANOID is set to
yes, it will print out the code that the modules
use. This is set to no by default.
There is a group of rules that Configure will try to set correctly, but that can be overridden. If you have to do this, please advise the Apache Group by filling out a problem report form at http://apache.org/bugdb.cgi or by sending an email to apache-bugs@ apache.org. Currently, there is only one rule in this group: