Note that I installed my own perl and Apache and mod_perl, I use fink for mysql and some of the libraries, and that I install the perl modules by hand.

Also note that for mod_perl, I added the --without-execstrip option, as Apache appears to be broken on Mac OS X, under some circumstances, without it (I got the undefined symbols warning for _ap_pstrndup, _ap_push_array, _perl_request_rec, _sv2request_rec when building Apache::Request/libapreq, as many others have).

When I previously built Slash for my PowerBook G4 running Mac OS X 10.2.x, I didn't need to do the execstrip thing. I don't know why. But now, on this machine, I do. I blame SCO.

• download and unpack apache 1.3.28, mod_perl 1.28, perl 5.8.1 RC4

• install perl in /usr/local

  	% sh Configure -Duseshrplib -des
  	% make ; make test
  	% make install

• install fink

• log out and log back in (connected via ssh) to get fink in environment

• install fileutils (gives version of cp compatible with Slash makefile)

  	% fink install fileutils

• install expat

  	% fink install expat

• install mysql

  	% fink install mysql mysql-client mysql-dev mysql-shlibs

• start mysql

  	% sudo true; sudo safe_mysqld &

• create your slash database and users in mysql, and flush privileges (see INSTALL)

• install Bundles in CPAN (NOT Bundle::Slash yet)

  	cpan> install Bundle::CPAN
  	cpan> reload cpan
  	cpan> install Bundle::libnet
  	cpan> install Bundle::LWP

• install mod_perl/apache in /usr/local

  	perl Makefile.PL APACHE_SRC=../apache_1.3.28/src DO_HTTPD=1 USE_APACI=1 \
          PERL_MARK_WHERE=1 EVERYTHING=1 APACHE_PREFIX=/usr/local/apache \
          ADD_MODULE="headers,rewrite,usertrack" APACI_ARGS="--without-execstrip"

  NOTE: I had to move /etc/httpd/httpd.conf, Apple's default, out of the way and move /etc/httpd/httpd.conf.default into its place. I would've thought it would put the httpd.conf into /usr/local/apache/, but it did not. I dunno why, and at this point don't care.

• XML::Parser needs some help finding the paths for fink:

  	cpan> look XML::Parser
  	# perl Makefile.PL EXPATLIBPATH=/sw/lib EXPATINCPATH=/sw/include
  	# make; make test
  	# sudo make install
  	# exit

• DBD::mysql, Date::Manip, XML::Simple, Apache::DBI failed a tiny number of tests. I forced them.

  	cpan> force install DBD::mysql
  	cpan> force install Date::Manip
  	cpan> force install XML::Simple

• Apache::Test and Apache::Request needed some handholding too.

  	cpan> look Apache::Test
  	# perl Makefile.PL -httpd /usr/local/apache/sbin/httpd
  	# make; make test
  	# make install
  	# exit
  	cpan> look Apache::Request
  	# ./configure --with-apache-include=/usr/local/apache/include/
  	# make
  	# make install
  	# perl Makefile.PL -httpd /usr/local/apache/sbin/httpd
  	# make; make test
  	# make install
  	# exit

• Then, finally:

  	cpan> install Bundle::Slash

• Install the rest of Slash as usual.