Failure calling BOOT: code

[Marc Tardif]

This is the software installed on my system:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4
  httpd-2.0.54
  mod_perl-2.0.1
This is the configuration in my httpd.conf file:

  LoadModule perl_module modules/mod_perl.so
  PerlRequire /usr/my/dev/lib/My/bootstrapper.pl
  SetHandler modperl
  PerlResponseHandler My::Handler

This is the content of /usr/my/dev/lib/My/bootstrapper.pl:

  use lib '/usr/my/dev/lib';
  open(STDERR, ">>/tmp/mod_perl.error.log") || die $!;

This is the content of /usr/my/dev/lib/My/Handler.pm:

  package My::Handler;

  use Apache2::RequestRec ();
  use Apache2::RequestIO ();
  use Apache2::Const -compile => qw(OK);

  sub handler {
    my $r = shift;
    $r->print("hello_world");
    # require Mozilla::LDAP::API;
    return Apache2::Const::OK;
  }

The problem is that if I uncomment the require line in the handler, I 
get the following error message in /tmp/mod_perl.error.log:

  Error loading Mozilla::LDAP::API: perldap_init failed

The solution might be related to the following XS code in API.xs:

  BOOT:
  if ( perldap_init() != 0) {
     fprintf(stderr,
     "Error loading Mozilla::LDAP::API: perldap_init failed\n");
     exit(1);
  }

So, perhaps perldap_init() is being called multiple times. Is there 
something I can try in mod_perl to avoid this kind of problem? Can I 
provide more information to help solve this problem?

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Marc Tardif
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