The ./configure script will analyze your environment and create custom
Makefiles particular to your system. Aside from all the standard
autoconf stuff, ./configure does the following:
Finds out whether a program called apxs is available. This
program is part of the standard Apache distribution, and is necessary
for DSO compilation. If apxs cannot be found in your PATH or in
/usr/local/apache/bin, DSO compilation will not be available.
You can manually specify the location of apxs by using the
--with-apxs option, e.g.:
Checks your Python version and attempts to figure out where
libpython is by looking at various parameters compiled into
your Python binary. By default, it will use the python
program found in your PATH.
If the fist Python
binary in the path is not suitable or not the one desired for
mod_python, you can specify an alternative location with the
--with-python options, e.g:
