Stas and Marc,
So after a week hiatus I was finally able to return to my Perl/ModPerl2/Apache2 woes on my Dell 64bit box running redhat linux.
When we last left the main saga, I had just rebuilt perl and modperl with the -fPIC flag only to find that the tests for subprocess.t would not work. I tried several suggestions from Stas but nothing worked. Mark suggested recompiling apache as well and that was to be my next step before I was sidelined by other issues.
When I rebuilt apache today, the modperl tests still failed at subprocess.t even after another modperl rebuild. So I did another reinstall of perl. This time during the configure operation when the script prompted for directories to search for standard libs the defaults were /usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib (as before). After checking out the original redhat installed version of perl (from rpm vesion 5.8.0), I noticed that it used mostly libs from /lib64 and /usr/lib64. So I overrode the defaults for this question with - /lib /usr/lib /lib64 /usr/lib64. Then when I got to the prompt for default libs it had all the ones I needed as the default value which it had failed to do before. I still had to change the link flags from -fpic to -fPIC and replace the default link switches with values I found in the redhat perl, but then all of the tests for perl and modperl passed.
I did not even have to rebuild apache after that.
Great. Tom any chance you could write a simple step by step document of what you have done, including commands for other users who will hit the same problem? we can add it to the troubleshooting docs. Thanks!
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