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Compiling Google mod_pagespeed on Archlinux

Google released its awesome apache module mod_pagespeed recently. Unfortunately only .deb/.rpm packages are provided officially. For arch user, we have to compile it by ourselves.

Based on google's howto, we need depot_tools to compile mod_pagespeed. There is an aur package depot_tools-svn, but seems not work now because arch switched to python 3.

So I downloaded depot_tools myself and put it in my ~/scripts/depot_tools.

mkdir -p ~/scripts
cd ~/scripts
svn co http://src.chromium.org/svn/trunk/tools/depot_tools

To make depot_tools work, you need to switch to python2:

sudo rm /usr/bin/python
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/python2 /usr/bin/python
sudo rm /usr/bin/python-config
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/python2-config /usr/bin/python-config

Next step we download mod_pagespeed source code use depot_tools:

mkdir ~/mod_pagespeed # any directory is fine
cd ~/mod_pagespeed
gclient config http://modpagespeed.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/src
gclient sync --force # this will download all source code

You're ready to compile now.

cd ~/mod_pagespeed/src
make BUILDTYPE=Release # BUILDTYPE defaults to 'Debug'

I got an error when I compile it on my box:

In file included from /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.5.1/../../../../include/c++/4.5.1/utility:71:0,
from /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.5.1/../../../../include/c++/4.5.1/algorithm:61,
from ./net/instaweb/util/fetcher_test.h:24,
from ./net/instaweb/util/cache_fetcher_test.h:27,
from net/instaweb/util/cache_fetcher_test.cc:19:
...
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.5.1/../../../../include/c++/4.5.1/bits/stl_map.h:87:5: instantiated from here
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.5.1/../../../../include/c++/4.5.1/bits/stl_pair.h:77:11: error: ?std::pair<_t1,>::second? has incomplete type
./net/instaweb/util/public/cache_interface.h:28:7: error: forward declaration of ?struct net_instaweb::SharedString?

After digging a while, I made this patch to fix the error:

Index: net/instaweb/util/public/cache_interface.h
===================================================================
--- net/instaweb/util/public/cache_interface.h (revision 137)
+++ net/instaweb/util/public/cache_interface.h (working copy)
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@

#include <string>
#include "net/instaweb/util/public/string_util.h"
+#include "net/instaweb/util/public/shared_string.h"

namespace net_instaweb {

ps: I also deployed mod_pagespeed to our centos staging server, the whole process is very smooth. The result is also very impressive: gzip, cache-control, inline assets, etc. etc. all suddenly work like a charm. The only problem is with extend_cache filter: it modified asset name correctly, but when brower send request to those assets, the server reponds with 404 error. I have to disable rewrite_javascript and extend_cache filter to make our sites work correctly:

ModPagespeedDisableFilters rewrite_javascript
ModPagespeedDisableFilters extend_cache