Hi,
when you have compiled mod_perl as DSO you must _not_ load Embperl at server
startup time, i.e. _no_ "PerlModule HTML::Embperl" nor a "use HTML::Embperl"
in a startup.pl file!
Gerald
P.S. This problem will be fixed in mod_perl 1.22
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> Subject: Embperl SEGV's in mod_perl, but not standalone
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> I'm at my wits end here, as I've been hacking at this for a number of days
> now.
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> As you can guess from the subject line, I've setup Apache on an AIX 4.3.3
> box with mod_perl as a DSO. This compiles (with xlc 5.0.0.0) just fine,
> and I haven't a lick of problems there (thanks to all the patch info I
> found on the Embperl site). The problem I'm running into now is with
> Embperl. In case you are wondering, the symbols are not being stripped
> from httpd or libperl.so.
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> I've gotten it to work standalone just fine. My problem comes when I try
> to access it through mod_perl. Standalone, using the embpexec.pl
> script, I
> can trace the calls from begining to end, through the bootstrap and
> everything. Through mod_perl, I get to the bootstrap code for
> HTML::Embperl and it seg faults. The perl code itself is fine, but the
> bootstrap in Embperl.so chokes.
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> Also, I've tried compiling mod_perl statically into httpd, but I don't
> seem to be having much luck there. The symbols are all being exported,
> but none of the mod_perl configuration commands are recognized in
> httpd.conf.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Glenn McAllister
> ID - VisualAge for Java
> IBM Toronto Lab, (416) 448-3805
> "An approximate answer to the right question is better than the
> right answer to the wrong question." - John W. Tukey
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