Fwd: Re: Apache::Reload and INC path partialy working

[Bruce Tennant]

Forwarding message as I didn't realize I was missing the list.

Geoffrey Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 14:18:37 -0400
From: Geoffrey Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Bruce Tennant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Apache::Reload and INC path partialy working

ok, I'll take a look at this.

please repost to the list, though, so others can help and your results are
recorded.

and no, there is no rpm package for the latest CVS version that I know about
- you'll need to compile it yourself (which is easy, don't worry :)

--Geoff

Bruce Tennant wrote:
> The INC is correct (it has the new path in it).
>
> But if I touch a file in the added directory, it detects the file as
> being changed (uses proper INC), but seems to not find it when it is
> trying to reload it (sees base INC).
>
> I tried another thing, use a startup.pl file, it seems to work 90% of
> the time. Sometimes when a file is changed or reloaded, one of the sub
> httpd process will say it knows nothing about the reloaded module. But
> I can work w/this as a hitting reload on the browser fixes this.
>
> Here's the INC when no module is changed:
> /home/bruce/public_html/ffball/myff
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/Apache2
> /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl .
>
> Here's the INC after I touched Apache/DBI.pm in site_perl and it was
> reloaded (seen in log)
>
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/Apache2
> /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl
> /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0 .
>
> It would seem it dropped the perl5lib line.
>
> Oh also, if I remove the "use lib" line in my top file, none of my local
> modules will load. I though the PERL5LIB was suppose to add to the base
> INC and make it so you didn't need to use "use lib". Maybe this is the
> root of the problem.
>
> But as I mentioned, if using a startup script w/PerlRequire, the reloads
> seem to work.
>
> Do you know if there's a new rpm package for mod-perl (RH9)?
>
> */Geoffrey Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/* wrote:
>
>
>
> Bruce Tennant wrote:
> > I'm trying to do some development work with mod_perl and find
> > restarting the server a pain. So I setup Apache::Reload, but it
> > doesn't seem to want to see my local devel directory all the time.
> >
> > Here's my settings
> > Apache/2.0.40
> > mod_perl-1.99_7
>
> please upgrade to the latest CVS version and try again - 1.99_07 is
> very old.
>
>
> > Linux 2.4.20-8 (RedHat9 I think)
> >
> >
> > Here's my perl.conf (sourced by httpd.conf)
> > ----start----------------
> >
> > LoadModule perl_module modules/mod_perl.so
> >
> > PerlSetEnv PERL5LIB /home/bruce/public_html/ffball/myff
>
> >
> > Here's the problem. It seems that the reload module is finding the
> > local modules okay as it shows up in the error_log as checking the
> > mtime. But when th! ey do change, it dies when it tries to reload
> > them and says they aren't in the @INC path.
>
> ok. can you show us @INC before and after the reload attempt? I'm
> curious
> as to whether PERL5LIB is being properly added to @INC for the
> request time
> interpreters.
>
> also, does it fail if you reload modules that are not in @INC? for
> instance, try touching CGI.pm or something in your site_lib and
> watch the
> debug messages.
>
> >
> > So it's like it is half working.
> >
> > Has anyone ! else seen this problem and have a possible fix?
>
> we'll find a fix if we can isolate and reproduce the problem, don't
> worry :)
>
> --Geoff
>
>
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