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Building from Source

We've attempted to ensure that compiling apr, apr-iconv and apr-util distribution tarballs requires nothing more than what comes installed by default on various UNIX platforms.

All you should have to do is this:

./configure
make
make install

Note that if you are compiling directly from the Subversion repository, you'll need GNU autoconf and GNU libtool installed, and you'll need to run ./buildconf before running the commands listed above.

Building RPMs (Redhat / CentOS / Fedora)

While APR is available as an RPM for most distributions, it can sometimes be desirable to install and use the canonical version of APR on these systems, replacing the natively provided versions of the packages.

While the APR project does not currently create binary RPMs for the various distributions out there, it is easy to build your own binary RPMs from the canonical APR and APR-Util tarballs as follows.

Creating Source RPMs

The APR and APR-Util source tarballs can be converted into SRPMs as follows:

      rpmbuild -ts apr-1.4.x.tar.bz2
      rpmbuild -ts apr-util-1.4.x.tar.bz2
    

Building RPMs

The APR RPM can be built directly from the APR source tarball using the following command:

rpmbuild -tb apr-1.4.x.tar.bz2

Corresponding "-devel" packages will be required to be installed on your build system prior to building the RPMs, the rpmbuild command will automatically calculate what RPMs are required and will list any dependencies that are missing on your system. These "-devel" packages will not be required after the build is completed, and can be safely removed.

If successful, the following RPMs will be created:

apr-1.4.x-1.i686.rpm

The core APR library.

apr-debuginfo-1.4.x-1.i686.rpm

Debugging symbols for the library.

apr-devel-1.4.x-1.i686.rpm

Headers and development files for the library.

An APR-Util RPM can be built directly from the APR-Util source tarball using the following command:

rpmbuild -tb apr-util-1.4.x.tar.bz2

If successful, the following RPMs will be created:

apr-util-1.4.x-1.i686.rpm

The core APR-Util library.

apr-util-debuginfo-1.4.x-1.i686.rpm

Debugging symbols for the library.

apr-util-devel-1.4.x-1.i686.rpm

Headers and development files for the library.

apr-util-dbm-1.4.x-1.i686.rpm

DBM driver, dependent on db4.

apr-util-pgsql-1.4.x-1.i686.rpm

DBD Postgres driver, dependent on postgresql.

apr-util-mysql-1.4.x-1.i686.rpm

DBD MySQL driver, dependent on mysql.

apr-util-sqlite-1.4.x-1.i686.rpm

DBD SQLite3 driver, dependent on sqlite3.

apr-util-freetds-1.4.x-1.i686.rpm

DBD FreeTDS driver, dependent on freetds.

apr-util-odbc-1.4.x-1.i686.rpm

DBD ODBC driver, dependent on unixODBC.

apr-util-ldap-1.4.x-1.i686.rpm

LDAP driver, dependent on openldap.

apr-util-openssl-1.4.x-1.i686.rpm

Crypto OpenSSL driver, dependent on openssl.

apr-util-nss-1.4.x-1.i686.rpm

Crypto NSS driver, dependent on Mozilla NSS.