Thanks to everyone who contributed their insights to this thread - I
did get in touch with Mr. Galucci - and he did help straighten out
my installation. The main problem here was some remnants of Apache2
were still in the file system and lib pointers were not set correctly during 
the install and so things didn't link up properly.

Thanks again,
Joe Niederberger
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: mackenna@[...].com 
  To: Sin 
  Cc: metacyclic@[...].com ; mod_perl list 
  Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 11:56 AM
  Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.2, mod_perl2 & Apache2::Cookie (libapreq2)


  The man you want at the FreeBSD lists is Philip M. Gollucci.  
  He maintains libapreq2 in the ports collection, and was very
  helpful to me when I was trying to get the module to build, 
  earlier this year.


  Good Luck and please report your results to this list when this is settled,
  cmac




  On Oct 30, 2009, at 9:44 AM, Sin wrote:


    When I build from ports the " make config " usually brings up a window that has options 
for both 32 bit and 64 bit.   If I had to guess I'd say its the same Makefile and source cod
e that builds the binary files.   Or in your case a 64 bit bin file.   But honestly I really
 don't know, we should steer this thread over to the FreeBSD mailling lists.  Perhaps its ju
st a matter of pointing this out to a maintainer or the governing group at the FreeBSD maill
ing list people.   Maybe they know the next step? 
      ----- Original Message -----
      From: metacyclic@[...].com
      To: Sin
      Cc: Foo JH ; Adam Prime ; Joe Niederberger ; mod_perl list
      Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 12:36 PM
      Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.2, mod_perl2 & Apache2::Cookie (libapreq2)


      This may be completely unrelated, but I had similar headaches installing libapreq2 on 
a 64 bit machine that had both 32 and 64 bit libs installed.  I had to uninstall the offendi
ng 32 bit libs (which I didn't need).

      Do they have a similar setup?

      Dimitri


      On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Sin <sinister@[...].com>  wrote:

        pkg_add -r just goes to a package repository and gets a package version thats allrea
dy complied for your distribution.   So you can't build your options.

        However this apreq2.12 issue is interesting.   I was going to try this again.   I we
nt to build this port but make errored out with:

        ===>   libapreq2-2.12_1 : Error from bsd.apache.mk. apache13 is installed (or APACHE_
PORT is defined) and port requires 2.0+.
        *** Error code 1


        But if you look at the port it says apache-1.3.41_1 is the build and run dependency.
  So it should of built the port (because I just happen to have apache 1.3 installed ).   I'
m wondering if all the times I tried to build Apache2.x with mod_perl2 the application could
n't interface with it because of a missing dependency.


        I'm not a BSD expert but it looks like this port needs updating.   Here's the descri
ption in ports:



        Port:   libapreq2-2.12_1
        Path:   /usr/ports/www/libapreq2
        Info:   Generic Apache2 Request Library
        Maint:  skv@[...].org

        B-deps: apache-1.3.41_1 autoconf-2.62 autoconf-wrapper-20071109 expat-2.0.1 gettext-
0.17_1 gmake-3.81_3 libiconv-1.13.1 libtool-2.2.6a_1 m4-1.4.13,1 perl-5.8.9_3

        R-deps: apache-1.3.41_1 expat-2.0.1 perl-5.8.9_3
        WWW:    http://httpd.apache.org/apreq/



        Port:   p5-libapreq2-2.12_1
        Path:   /usr/ports/www/p5-libapreq2
        Info:   Generic Apache2 Request Library
        Maint:  skv@[...].org

        B-deps: apache-1.3.41_1 autoconf-2.62 autoconf-wrapper-20071109 expat-2.0.1 gettext-
0.17_1 gmake-3.81_3 libiconv-1.13.1 libtool-2.2.6a_1 m4-1.4.13,1 mod_perl2-2.0.4_2,3 p5-BSD-
Resource-1.2903 p5-ExtUtils-XSBuilder-0.28_1 p5-Parse-RecDescent-1.962.2 p5-Tie-IxHash-1.21 
p5-version-0.76 perl-5.8.9_3

        R-deps: apache-1.3.41_1 expat-2.0.1 mod_perl2-2.0.4_2,3 p5-BSD-Resource-1.2903 p5-Ex
tUtils-XSBuilder-0.28_1 p5-Parse-RecDescent-1.962.2 p5-Tie-IxHash-1.21 p5-version-0.76 perl-
5.8.9_3
        WWW:    http://httpd.apache.org/apreq/


        ----- Original Message ----- From: "Foo JH" <jhfoo-ml@[...].com> 
        To: "Adam Prime" <adam.prime@[...].ca> 
        Cc: "Joe Niederberger" <jniederberger@[...].net> ; "mod_perl list" <modperl@[...].org
> 
        Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 3:15 AM

        Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.2, mod_perl2 & Apache2::Cookie (libapreq2)



          Just a thought: is install ap22 + mp2 + libapreq2 via pkg_add -r an option? That's
 what I normally do these days.


          Adam Prime wrote:

            You guys might want to take a look at this thread on apreq-dev

            http://marc.info/?t=124207659800007&r=1&w=2

            Specifically the last couple of posts from pgollucci (who is a freebsd, and mod_
perl committer).  If you can't get apreq2.12 to work, try 2.08.

            Adam




            Joe Niederberger wrote:

              How do I find out what *all* the special options needed are?

              Thanks,
              Joe N.

              ----- Original Message ----- From: <glenn@[...].net> 
              To: "mod_perl list" <modperl@[...].org> 
              Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 12:14 PM
              Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.2, mod_perl2 & Apache2::Cookie (libapreq2)



                I've been using apache2/mod_perl2 on FreeBSD for years. Currently using 6.3 
and 7.2. Installing from ports should work fine, but I prefer to install separate versions o
f apache2 and mod_perl2 from source. Haven't had a problem installing either of those in som
etime. Installing libapreq2 on FreeBSD requires some special options, like passing --with-ex
pat=/usr/local to configure and using gmake.

                -Glenn