On Sat, 2007-07-21 at 18:32 -0500, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > Farokh Irani wrote: > >> On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 07:23 -0400, Farokh Irani wrote: > >> > >>> See any operating system documentation about shared libraries for > >>> more information, such as the ld(1) and ld.so(8) manual pages. > >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>> chmod 755 /usr/local/libexec/apache22/mod_fancy.so > >> > >> Not neccessary - shared libs don't need to be executable. > > Slightly myopic perspective, obviously a linux-user comment ;-) > > Several linux derivatives require all loadable modules to be executable > to be loaded as code pages. Sensible thing, eh ;-? Examples include AIX, > HPUX etc.
No - not a Linux-only user (AIX and SunOS/Solaris as well, but I have to admit that I've moved pretty much all of my day work to Linux/BSDs ...). But I still consider this a rather strange thing to do on Linux and BSD ... it'll surely trigger some security scanners .... > > This is also something that is in the apxs code around line 488. Of > > course, the apxs2 on my debian machine does chmod 644. > > Well, there's no harm (no benefit I can identify, either) if a vendor on > linux makes this tweak. > > None of this has anything to do with the missing symbol, I expect. Which > symbol is missing, is this your fancy_module data symbol? No - noone ever claimed. I guess you didn't bother reading the rest of the thread, did you? To bussy sweating over the AIX administration :-) > You probably didn't ensure that the apache2 module structure to be declared > in a C namespace as an export. My mod_aspdotnet is one such example, He (they?) did. > http://mod-aspdotnet.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/mod-aspdotnet/mod_aspdotnet/trunk/mod/mod_aspdotnet.cpp?revision=175&view=markup > Althought this c++ module for MS compilation has a bunch of .NET'isms, this > particular fragment shouldn't change; > > > extern "C" { > extern module AP_MODULE_DECLARE_DATA aspdotnet_module; > } > > module AP_MODULE_DECLARE_DATA ::aspdotnet_module = > { > STANDARD20_MODULE_STUFF, > create_asp_net_dirconf, /* dir config */ > merge_asp_net_dirconf, /* merge dir config */ > create_asp_net_srvconf, /* server config */ > merge_asp_net_srvconf, /* merge server config */ > asp_net_cmds, /* command apr_table_t */ > register_hooks /* register hooks */ > }; It's definitely a bug (one of many if i might say so as an almost exclusive Linux user) in APXS. Files with non-'*.c' extensions aren't considered source files and libool gets invoked in link mode only. THT Ralf Mattes > > Bill
