Problems with compiling apache2 on Mac OS X Mountain Lion

Question

While trying to compile the latest version of the apache web server(2.4.3) on my Mac (10.8) I run into a problem. When I run the ./configure command I got the following outp

Answer 1

I'm on OSX Mavericks and was trying to compile Apache 2.2.24 and ran into this error. I saw from other answers that the problem was with apxr and thus APR returning the wrong location for gcc. Apple supplies this and the Apache config was using the Apple supplied one.

On a whim, I looked and saw that the configure script has an option to ignore the system supplied APRs and use its own.

So I did this:

./configure --with-included-apr

And it got past the configure step and compiled without errors.