Andrew Ho wrote:
> AB>Untrue. We ship mod_perl in Solaris 8 as a DSO, and it works fine.
>
> I apologize. Let me qualify my original statement. In general, you want to
> compile mod_perl statically on Solaris 2.6 or 2.7 because in many
> instances, it core dumps when built as a DSO. FWIW, my particular
> experiences were with Perl 5.005_03 and 5.6.0, mod_perl 1.24 and 1.25, and
> Apache 1.3.12, 1.3.14, 1.3.17, and 1.3.19 under Solaris 2.6 (both Sparc
> and Intel) and 2.7 (Intel only).
No need for an apology :-) The trick is to build perl using the Solaris
malloc (-Dusemymalloc as a flag to Configure), then apache, mod_perl and
perl all agree on who manages memory.
> Humbly,
And no need for that either! :-)
Regards,
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Alan Burlison
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