Trouble trying to compile apache2

[Russell VT]

Thanks for the clarification, Adam.

I've been meaning/wanting to step up and take care of some Cygwin packages,
given that it's generally my Unix after from my desktop environment sort of
arrangement ... and, well, I have a Jenkins server that has some free
cycles on it (particularly for things like nightly, off-hours
builds/pipelines).

TLDR; I will start digging in to it, myself... may not have too much spare
time, at least this week, until the weekend.

Thanks!


On Tue, Feb 15, 2022, 4:40 AM Adam Dinwoodie <adam@dinwoodie.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 11:17:59PM -0800, Russell VT wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 2:26 PM Scott Wood <> wrote:
> >
> > > I'm trying to compile a current version of apache2 httpd under the
> cygwin64
> > > environment. There is an older version of apache2 compiled in cygwin
> but
> > > it's orphaned and didn't include some of the ssl libs I needed.
> > >
> >
> > Well, I wouldn't call it "orphaned" ... it's just a few dot revisions
> > behind. Both 2.4.29 and 2.4.25 seem to be in the package list, and
> current
> > is 2.4.52 (2021/12/20)
>
> From a formal Cygwin package management perspective, the package is
> orphaned.  That is, the page at https://cygwin.com/cygwin-pkg-maint
> lists the package as "ORPHANED", which means nobody is currently taking
> specific responsibility for answering questions about the package or
> providing updates in future.
>
> That obviously means that volunteers to maintain the package would
> almost certainly be gladly received.  I've not looked at how much work
> is required to maintain this package, but as a maintainer for some other
> packages, I can say it's not a lot of work, particularly if you'd be
> getting the package compiling for your own purposes anyway.
>
> If you (where, by "you", I mean anyone reading this!) want to try taking
> over the maintainership, there's a bunch of information about what's
> required at https://cygwin.com/packaging-contributors-guide.html, and
> the packagers' mailing list is active and helpful.  Plus -- while we
> seem to have mostly dropped the habit of awarding gold stars to folk
> making contributions -- I think adopting an orphaned package is still
> worthy of automatic listing at https://cygwin.com/goldstars/
>
> Adam
>
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