Building a Perl 5.8.0, mod_perl, Apache, and PHP web development system in Jaguar

A week ago I posted about building a Perl 5.8.0/Apache/mod_perl/PHP web development setup in Mac OS X 10.2.x Jaguar. Further testing revealed that Aaron's otherwise excellent Perl 5.8.0 installer contains a threaded perl, which is incompatible with DBI. No DBI, no talkie to MovableType's mysql datastore. DBI is essential to me, so I need a nonthreaded perl-5.8.0.

DECISION: I'll build/install an unthreaded perl 5.8.0 in /opt/perl, separate from Apple's default perl 5.6.0 installation in /usr, so a future Apple software update doesn't mess up my install. (This is consistent with my current build method for apache in /opt/apache.) Further, I'm choosing to leave Apple's /System/Library/Perl untouched and to install modules in /Library/Perl/${version}--not in /opt/perl/...-- as suggested/implied in Wilfredo's updated hints/darwin.sh below.

Restore Apple's OSX 10.2.2 virgin perl 5.6.0:
cd / sudo gnutar xpzvf /Library/PerlBackup/perl-v5.6.0-10.2.2-virgin.tar.gz
(as created by Aaron's Perl 5.8.0 installer on a Lombard's fresh OSX 10.2.2 install, the tarball for which you can retrieve here)

Build Perl: Start with Morbus Iff's Perl 5.8.0 build instructions, but with this variation:
Use Wilfredo Sanchez's updated perl-5.8.0/hints/darwin.sh (24 Sep 2002) as mentioned here.
In Wilfredo's updated darwin.sh, change the default prefix, site prefix, and vendorprefix from /usr/local to /opt/perl, and leave "where to put modules" unchanged, as below:
# Default install; use non-system directories prefix='/opt/perl'; # Built-in perl uses /usr siteprefix='/opt/perl'; vendorprefix='/opt/perl'; usevendorprefix='define';
# Where to put modules. privlib="/Library/Perl/${version}"; # Built-in perl uses /System/Library/Perl sitelib="/Library/Perl/${version}"; vendorlib="/Network/Library/Perl/${version}";
I'm assuming that if prefix isn't set to /usr then the succeeding '/usr' case (not shown above) is ignored, so I'm leaving the '/usr' case content as is.

Now back to following Morbus Iff's Perl 5.8.0 build instructions, starting at Installation.
I used
./Configure -de -Dperladmin='mwjames@basileia.local.' -Dcf_email=mwjames@example.com -Dotherlibdirs=~/Library/Perl
The 'make' appeared to complete successfully.
The 'make test' showed all 'ok' down to
lib/Shell............................ <hung here>
(This problem has already been noted on 2002-10-09 by Linc Davis.)
I installed anyway (sudo make install).
Finally, I symlinked the new perl binaries to their "usual" location:
sudo ln -s /opt/perl/bin/* /usr/local/bin/

Now continue with mod_perl, Apache, and PHP building, as before:

Build mod_perl then Apache using David Wheeler's article, Build Your Own Apache Server with mod_perl. I varied from David's build instructions only by adding these apache configure parameters:
--prefix=/opt/apache/l.3.27
--enable-module=most
--enable-shared=max

Build PHP 4.2.3 using Marc Liyanage's PHP 4.2.x build instructions to create a libphp4.so module for apache.