I can try and debug this, I've found a NetBSD machine and reproduced the failure. ./t/TEST -start-httpd doesn't work from the mod_perl test suite, is there a way to get that working?
bash-2.05b$ ./t/TEST -start-httpd /tmp/jorton12/root/bin/httpd -d /tmp/jorton12/mod_perl-1.99_16/t -f /tmp/jorton12/mod_perl-1.99_16/t/conf/httpd.conf -D APACHE2 using Apache/2.0.51-dev (prefork MPM) waiting 120 seconds for server to start: .[Tue Sep 14 15:53:52 2004] [info] 27 Apache:: modules loaded [Tue Sep 14 15:53:52 2004] [info] 7 APR:: modules loaded [Tue Sep 14 15:53:52 2004] [info] base server + 20 vhosts ready to run tests [Tue Sep 14 15:53:53 2004] [error] Can't locate ApacheTest/PerlModuleTest.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /tmp/jorton12/mod_perl-1.99_16/t/lib /tmp/jorton12/mod_perl-1.99_16/Apache-Test/lib /tmp/jorton12/mod_perl-1.99_16/t/response /tmp/jorton12/mod_perl-1.99_16/t/protocol /tmp/jorton12/mod_perl-1.99_16/t/preconnection /tmp/jorton12/mod_perl-1.99_16/t/hooks /tmp/jorton12/mod_perl-1.99_16/t/filter /tmp/jorton12/mod_perl-1.99_16/t /tmp/jorton12/mod_perl-1.99_16/t/htdocs/testdirective/main /tmp/jorton12/mod_perl-1.99_16/t/htdocs/testdirective/perlmodule-vh /tmp/jorton12/mod_perl-1.99_16/t/ /tmp/jorton12/mod_perl-1.99_16/t/lib/perl /tmp/jorton12/mod_perl-1.99_16/blib/lib /tmp/jorton12/mod_perl-1.99_16/blib/arch /usr/pkg/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-netbsd /usr/pkg/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0 /usr/pkg/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/pkg/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-netbsd /usr/pkg/lib/perl5/5.8.0) at (eval 60) line 3.\n [Tue Sep 14 15:53:53 2004] [error] Can't load Perl module ApacheTest::PerlModuleTest for server localhost:8549, exiting... -- Report problems: http://perl.apache.org/bugs/ Mail list info: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/modperl.html List etiquette: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/email-etiquette.html
