CentOS 8 install failure #1119
Description
Created configuration for CentOS 8 (see pull request openwebwork/ww_install#12) and attempted to install wtih ww_install script. Install terminates in section Checking for required perl modules and external programs... with this error:
** Apache2::Request found, but failed to load: Can't load '/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/APR/Request/Apache2/Apache2.so' for module APR::Request::Apache2: /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/APR/Request/Apache2/Apache2.so: undefined symbol: apreq_handle_apache2 at /usr/lib64/perl5/DynaLoader.pm line 193, <DATA> line 755.
at /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Apache2/Request.pm line 3.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Apache2/Request.pm line 3, <DATA> line 755.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Apache2/Request.pm line 3, <DATA> line 755.
Compilation failed in require at (eval 699) line 1, <DATA> line 755.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 699) line 1, <DATA> line 755.
Missing module. Sorry! Try adding this module to your distribution file in distros. at bin/ww_install.pl line 1090, <DATA> line 755.
This apparently has to do with changes in packaging for Perl or libapreq2 because in CentOS 7 it works fine. In CentOS 8 and recent Fedoras,
perl -MApache2::Request -e 1
fails with the same error. Note that in both CentOS 7 and CentOS 8, apreq_handle_apache2 is defined in /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_apreq2.so.