> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Styer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> Hi there,
>
> I'm another person in the short but persistent line of people
> who can't
> seem to get custom configuration directives to work.
:-)
> In Makefile.PL I have:
>
> package ConfigModule;
>
> ## ... (as directed by Eagle)
>
> my @directives = (
> { name => 'NewConfigDirective',
> errmsg => 'argument to config directive',
> args_how => 'TAKE1',
> req_override => 'RSRC_CONF'
> }
> );
I'm assuming you have more than that... :-)
> and in ConfigModule.pm I have:
>
> sub NewConfigDirective ($$$) {
> my ($cfg, $parms, $arg) = @_;
> $cfg->{'NewConfigDirective'} = $arg;
> }
>
>
> One clue I've found as to where something might be going wrong is that
> when I comment out the 'args_how' line in Makefile.PL and run 'perl
> Makefile.PL' I get this error:
>
> Can't determine prototype for
> `ConfigModule::NewConfigDirective': at
>
> /usr/perl5/lib/site_perl/5.005/i686-linux/Apache/ExtUtils.pm line 133.
That's because ConfigModule.pm isn't loaded at the time. You'd have to
require() it or use() it.
> So it looks as though something isn't reading ConfigModule.pm on
> WriteMakefile or on command_table and possibly not
> registering the handler
> for the new directive, which might explain why I'm getting a
> syntax error
> in the httpd.conf file when the server starts. But what would
> be causing
> that to happen? I'm afraid I'm not familiar enough with the MakeMaker
> mechanism to figure out what's going on. Then again, I'm not
> sure that's
> really the problem, so disregard it if you think it's a red herring.
Are you getting a ConfigModule.xs file written and compiled OK?
> Details:
>
> mod_perl version used is 1.23
There have been some fairly serious config directives bugs fixed since then.
I suggest an upgrade.
Matt.
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