On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Rob Bloodgood 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.
>
> Might I suggest that this golden piece of information find it's way into the
> guide? It's so rare to see a DEFINITIVE answer to one of the many ("YMMV!"
> :-)exceptions to the vanilla mod_perl build process.
The definitive answer is there for at least 2 years: "If in doubt compile
statically", which covers Solaris as well. Why having a special case?
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