Juha-Mikko Ahonen wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wednesday 16 October 2002 20:25, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > >>By "should", do you mean that the problems with the loadable module >>overall are so well-known that no one in his right mind should ever >>use it? > > > Yes. The problems with DSO mod_perl are well known. It works perfectly > when build staticly into Apache, though. Install apache-perl package > instead of apache and libapache-mod-perl. Everything works with it as > it would on normal Apache. After migrating to apache-perl, remove the > LoadModule for mod_perl from your Apache configuration.
I already have, months ago. > > >>Might it be related to the Perl-malloc problem cited here: >> >>http://apache.perl.org/docs/1.0/guide/install.html#When_DSO_can_be_Us >>ed >> >>If either of the above or true, seems like Debian needs to quit >>distributing libapache-mod-perl. > > > The problem is not Debian-related, so it won't justify removing the > package from Debian. Huh? I would think that would be a really good reason to yank it. If it were Debian-related, the maintainer could fix it and keep it.
