I upgraded the Apache to 2.2.27 on my FreeBSD box via portmaster. The upgrade went very smooth. After the upgrade, I decide to test the Apache by restarting the server. Oh well, I got the following error message:

[FreeBSD]Shared object "libaprutil-1.so.5" not found, required by "httpd"

Oh well, looks like libaprutil-1.so.5 is missing. How about I create this file by soft-linking from the newer version, such as libaprutil-1.so.6, libaprutil-1.so.7 etc. However, when I check the lib directory, I don’t see anything like that.

#/usr/local/lib
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   251k Jun 11 10:58 libaprutil-1.a
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   961B Jun 11 10:58 libaprutil-1.la
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    21B Jun 11 10:58 libaprutil-1.so -> libaprutil-1.so.0.5.3
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    21B Jun 11 10:58 libaprutil-1.so.0 -> libaprutil-1.so.0.5.3
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   148k Jun 11 10:58 libaprutil-1.so.0.5.3

Looks like it is not that simple to solve the problem. After couple trials and errors, I came up a solution. First, I need to reinstall the Apache, and then I need to reinstall Apr1.

cd /usr/local/www/apache22
make

Notice that I compile the file without installing it. That’s because I want to check the library dependence.

cd /usr/ports/www/apache22/work/httpd-2.2.27
ldd ./httpd
./httpd:
        libm.so.5 => /lib/libm.so.5 (0x80087d000)
        libpcre.so.3 => /usr/local/lib/libpcre.so.3 (0x800a9e000)
        libaprutil-1.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libaprutil-1.so.0 (0x800d02000)
        libdb-4.8.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libdb-4.8.so.0 (0x800f27000)
        libgdbm.so.4 => /usr/local/lib/libgdbm.so.4 (0x801299000)
        libexpat.so.6 => /usr/local/lib/libexpat.so.6 (0x8014a4000)
        libiconv.so.3 => /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.3 (0x8016c8000)
        libapr-1.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libapr-1.so.0 (0x8019c4000)
        libcrypt.so.5 => /lib/libcrypt.so.5 (0x801bf5000)
        libthr.so.3 => /lib/libthr.so.3 (0x801e14000)
        libc.so.7 => /lib/libc.so.7 (0x802037000)
        libapr-1.so.5 => not found (0)
        libintl.so.9 => /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.9 (0x802392000)

So it is libaprutil-1.so.0, which is what we have in /usr/local/lib/. That’s good. Now we can hit the install button.

cd /usr/ports/www/apache22/
make reinstall

So let’s try to run Apache again. Looks like we got a different error message:

/usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache22 restart
Performing sanity check on apache22 configuration:
Shared object "libapr-1.so.5" not found, required by "libaprutil-1.so.0"

It’s okay. Let’s do something similar to the apr1:

cd /usr/ports/devel/apr1/
make reinstall

Try to restart Apache again. The problem should be gone:

/usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache22 restart
Performing sanity check on apache22 configuration:
Syntax OK
Stopping apache22.
Waiting for PIDS: 1022.
Performing sanity check on apache22 configuration:
Syntax OK
Starting apache22.

Hope my solutions help!

–Derrick