On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 03:02:55PM -0700, Doug MacEachern wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Sep 2001, The Doctor wrote:
>
> > THAT is the problem, and thanks to you Doug, the same problemed appeared in
> > BSD/OS and the above FIXES the problem!!!
>
> great news. this has come up a bunch in the past, but nothing was done
> about it. i've added the following sanity check to Makefile.PL...
>
> Index: Makefile.PL
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /home/cvs/modperl/Makefile.PL,v
> retrieving revision 1.195
> diff -u -r1.195 Makefile.PL
> --- Makefile.PL 2001/07/17 15:54:05 1.195
> +++ Makefile.PL 2001/09/09 21:55:06
> @@ -2410,6 +2410,7 @@
> malloc_check();
> uselargefiles_check();
> dynaloader_check();
> + shrplib_check();
>
> if ($USE_APXS and $Config{libs} =~ /($thrlib)/) {
> my $lib = $1;
> @@ -2560,4 +2561,32 @@
> /* Added by Wayne Scott
>
> EOF
> +}
> +
> +sub shrplib_check {
> + return unless $Config{'useshrplib'} and
> + $Config{'useshrplib'} eq 'define';
> +
> + my $libperl = $Config{'libperl'} || 'libperl.so';
> +
> + for my $dir (qw(/lib /usr/lib /usr/local/lib)) {
> + next unless -e "$dir/$libperl";
> +
> + my $coredir = "$Config{'archlibexp'}/CORE";
> + my $corelib = "$coredir/$libperl";
> +
> + phat_warn(<<EOF);
> +$dir/$libperl might override
> +$corelib
> +
> +This may cause build or runtime errors with mod_perl.
> +Consider removing $dir/$libperl, it should not be there.
> +
> +If your vendor has installed $libperl there, complain to them and install
> +Perl from source if needed.
> +
> +$libperl should only exist in Perl version/arch directories, for example:
> +$coredir
> +EOF
> + }
> }
>
Doug, the problem lies in the fact that some release uses /usr/lib and
/usr/cotnrib/lib in their libpath.
all I did was to replace the libperl.so in both directories and
got perl to behave.
This COULD be a BSD release problem.
Again Doug, you are the man.
