Shibboleth Developers

[Jim Fox <>]

On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Scott Cantor wrote:

> I would welcome an autoconf patch that autodetects the Apache version if
> none is provided, but it would have to be tested on probably 3-4 different
> Linuxes.

The easiest way that ought to work everywhere is
to ask the daemon. Like this:

   # Find out which apache we're working for
   # by asking the server
   # (assuming APXS is the apxs program. and SED is sed)

    AC_MSG_CHECKING([Apache version])
    APACHE_VERSION=
    httpd="`$APXS -q SBINDIR`/`$APXS -q TARGET`"
    if test "x$httpd" != "x"; then
        v=`$httpd -v|$SED -n -e 's/.*Apache\/\.*//p'`
        case $v in
          1.3.*) APACHE_VERSION="1_3"
                 ;;
          2.*)   APACHE_VERSION="$v"
                 ;;
        esac
    fi
    AC_MSG_RESULT([$APACHE_VERSION])


If that fails then you have to do test compiles to
examine the include files.

Jim