Antwort: Re: [Mod_gzip] mod_gzip on Mac OS X

[Tom Wiebe]

On Tuesday, May 20, 2003, at 05:03 AM, Michael.Schroepl@telekurs.de 
wrote:
> Hi Tom,
>>
>> I'm sure this is likely beyond the scope of this list, but would
>> anyone like to comment on what these commands actually do and if
>> there's anything different I might wish to do when compiling on
>> a G4? Any magic switches to enable altivec processing?
>
> first of all, apxs is nothing but a Perl script whose source
> code you may read if you want.
>
> Secondly, apxs itself is being generated during the Apache
> compilation. Thus parts of this script will already be created
> platform dependent, inheriting compiler and linker dependent
> switches from the Apache compilation process.
> You must not rely even the same apxs call to do exactly the
> same thing on different platforms, but eventually this is ex-
> actly what you want: apxs is trying to do what's "appropriate"
> for
> - this platform,
> - the C compiler and
> - the linker
> that "configure" previously detected.
>
[snip]

Wow! Thanks for the explanation, and for pointing me in the right 
direction for more information. I've tried asking where to learn this 
stuff on many lists before, but have always been either brushed off or 
ignored.

Looks like I've got a lot of reading to do.

Tom