Apache2::Request test - invoke httpd with "/usr/bin/arch -i386 " prepended

[Issac Goldstand]

Hi Matt,
I'm no Mac expert (not even a Mac user, sorry), so forwarding this to
the development lists of apreq and Apache::Test (the test framework)

Hi,
I'm trying to install Apache2::Request using cpan.
I'm using a mac.
The mac would like me to recompile perl and all modules using 64 bit
architecture, if it were to let me use the default httpd settings with
the default mod_perl.so
However I can start httpd using a 'preferred architecture flag' and so
use 32 bit perl and 32 bit mod_perl.so.
HTTPD='/usr/sbin/httpd'
ARCH='/usr/bin/arch -i386 '
$ARCH $HTTPD $ARGV
.. so anyway, this works quite well.
So I've got a long way into installation, and figured out macs don't
like the location that the newly compiled libapreq2.3.dylib was left in,
so I manually moved that to /usr/lib/
and so I'm basically one step away from being able to run the test
section of installation.
/usr/bin/arch -i386 /usr/sbin/httpd -d
/Users/mw6/.cpan/build/libapreq2-2.13/module/t -f
/Users/mw6/.cpan/build/libapreq2-2.13/module/t/conf/httpd.conf -D
APACHE2 -D PERL_USEITHREADS
it just works..
but without the arch flag, the tests don't work.
So what suggestions do you have for either providing a custom path to
httpd for this module (eg; i might be able to create a script to do
startup)
or just a way to do what I want.
Thanks for any help,
Matt.