mod_fcgid update

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The version of mod_fcgid (2.2) is pretty old by now. Which is too bad, because 2.3.5 fixes some OS X bugs. (I only looked at it because my apache kept giving HTTP 500 errors, with "Resource temporarily unavailable: mod_fcgid: write data to fastcgi server error".)

Maybe that went unnoticed because the repository changed... (It's not sourceforge anymore.) It also has a somewhat new build process; I guess it's standard Apache's now.

I'm a new MacOS & MacPorts user, so I just trial-and-errored my way though things and came halfway creating an updated Portfile. I got through the fetch / checksum / extract / patch parts, but got tired at 'configure'. (I don't know how to run a nonstandard command.)

So after the 'patch' phase, I just ran the following by hand (from the build dir):

APXS=/opt/local/apache2/bin/apxs ./configure.apxs
make
rm /opt/local/apache2/modules/mod_fcgid.so
cp modules/fcgid/.libs/mod_fcgid.so /opt/local/apache2/modules/mod_fcgid.so

...and after a restart, my apache stopped crashing. So I'm happy for now :)

Maybe someone wants to use my updates to build a working Portfile? I'll try to attach:

• half-functional Portfile
• diff to the existing Portfile (so you can see what I did so far)
• an updated patch-fcgid_conf.c (copy it over the existing one)

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new (unfinished) Portfile

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Diff to existing Portfile for v2.2

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New patch, replaces existing file

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Maybe that went unnoticed because the repository changed...

It went unnoticed because nobody was looking; mod_fcgid has no maintainer in MacPorts at this time.

[pixilla (Bradley Giesbrecht)]

Fixed r79834