Error Installing Passenger with nginx

[Sergey A. Osokin]

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 09:50:07AM +0200, Abdul A. wrote:
> I've been trying to set up my ROR app on AIX 5.3 with Passenger. Tried
> all the different options. Till last night, I was getting below:
> 
> Commands:
> cd /path to my app
> passenger start
> 
> src/os/unix/ngx_errno.c: In function 'ngx_strerror':
> src/os/unix/ngx_errno.c:36:43: error: expected expression before ')'
> token
> src/os/unix/ngx_errno.c: In function 'ngx_strerror_init':
> src/os/unix/ngx_errno.c:57:24: error: invalid type argument of unary
> '*' (have
> long unsigned int')
> src/os/unix/ngx_errno.c:64:37: error: expected expression before ';'
> token
> gmake[1]: *** [objs/src/os/unix/ngx_errno.o] Error 1
> gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/abaziz-passenger-standalone-860288/
> nginx-1.0.
> 
> 
> I went in and manually changed file called ngx_auto_config.h, line 107
> to:
> 
> #ifndef NGX_SYS_NERR
> #define NGX_SYS_NERR
> to
> #ifndef NGX_SYS_NERR
> #define NGX_SYS_NERR 1
> 
> 
> This seem to have fixed the error. I want to confirm if this is a known
> an issue with nginx code?
> 
> Moving on - I'm now hitting different problems when I do the command:
> passenger-install-nginx-module.
> 
> ..........
> config.status: executing depfiles commands
> rm -f ext/libev//libev.la
> cd ext/libev/ && make libev.la
>         /bin/sh ./libtool --tag=CC    --mode=compile gcc -
> DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.
>   -g -O2 -O3 -c -o ev.lo ev.c
>  gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -g -O2 -O3 -c ev.c -o ev.o
> ev.c: In function 'ev_invoke_pending':
> ev.c:1997:9: error: 'ANPENDING' has no member named 'reqevents'
> ev.c: In function 'ev_clear_pending':
> ev.c:2465:15: error: 'ANPENDING' has no member named 'reqevents'
> ev.c: In function 'ev_io_start':
> ev.c:2506:3: error: 'ev_io' has no member named 'reqevents'
> ev.c:2514:25: error: 'ev_io' has no member named 'reqevents'
> ev.c:2515:4: error: 'ev_io' has no member named 'reqevents'
> ev.c: In function 'ev_embed_start':
> ev.c:3387:5: error: 'ev_io' has no member named 'reqevents'
> ev.c: In function 'ev_once':
> ev.c:3567:7: error: 'ev_io' has no member named 'reqevents'
> make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 1.

You should try to build libev separately.

Download original source from
http://dist.schmorp.de/libev/Attic/libev-3.9.tar.gz, build
and install libev.  Then try to rebuild nginx with installed
libev.

-- 
Sergey A. Osokin
osa at FreeBSD.ORG
osa at FreeBSD.ORG.ru