building SP against Oracle HTTP Server (OHS) 11g

[Cantor, Scott]

On 6/25/13 7:50 PM, "Scott Koranda" <skoranda at gmail.com> wrote:

>I would be grateful if the community could share any
>experiences, positive or negative, with running the SP with
>that or similar versions of OHS (more recent than 10g) on Linux.

I've done it with older versions.

>Specific questions include:
>
>* I imagine there is little to no chance that the existing
>  binary RPMs for the SP could be dropped into place and used?

No.

>* How likely are the existing SP SRPMs, with "simple" edits to
>  fix paths for ./configure and similar, to build against OHS?

You shouldn't have to fix anything, just rpmbuild using appropriate
options.

>* How likely is it that existing binary RPMs for the SP
>  dependencies (log4shib, Xerces-C, XML-Security-C, ...) could
>  be used and only the SP SRPM needs to be built against OHS?

Definite. The only code compiled against the web server are the modules.
There's nothing else anywhere in the code that knows anything about Apache.

>* Is there any known advantage to not attempting to leverage the
>  RPMs and SRPMs and instead building (and running) "in place"
>  because of some peculiar OHS requirement or behavior?

Not sure I follow that. Do you mean whether building from source is better
than rebuilding the RPM? Using the RPM is normally easier, but slightly
more technical, and at the end of the day it's just a question of how you
want to manage patching.

-- Scott