Re: problems on OS X
On Sun, 28 Apr 2002, Ken Williams wrote: Insecure dependency in eval while running with -T switch. Callback called exit. this has been fixed in modperl cvs, just remove the 'use ExtUtils::testlib;' line in t/docs/startup.pl
Re: problems on OS X
Great, the CVS version passes all tests for me now when built under 'perl Makefile.PL EVERYTHING=1' using apache 1.3.24. On Tuesday, May 21, 2002, at 07:19 AM, Doug MacEachern wrote: On Sun, 28 Apr 2002, Ken Williams wrote: Insecure dependency in eval while running with -T switch. Callback called exit. this has been fixed in modperl cvs, just remove the 'use ExtUtils::testlib;' line in t/docs/startup.pl -Ken
Re: problems on OS X
Ken Williams wrote: On Sunday, April 28, 2002, at 01:47 PM, Stas Bekman wrote: Ken, CWD.pm, has always suffered from taint problems. This problem has been fixed in the bleadperl, try this patch: --- /tmp/Cwd.pmSun Apr 28 11:44:38 2002 +++ /home/stas/perl.org/perl-5.6.1/lib/Cwd.pmFri Sep 14 17:09:10 2001 @@ -89,7 +89,6 @@ # The 'natural and safe form' for UNIX (pwd may be setuid root) sub _backtick_pwd { -local @ENV{qw(PATH IFS CDPATH ENV BASH_ENV)}; my $cwd = `pwd`; # `pwd` may fail e.g. if the disk is full chomp($cwd) if defined $cwd; This still fails, because it won't find `pwd` without a path. it does solve the problem on linux. Ken, can you test the bleadperl? This fix was applied as a solution. If `pwd` doesn't work for you, that sucks! Meaning that the problem wasn't fixed in bleadperl :( Can you check the recent Cwd thread on p5p (started by me) and try running cwd.t under -T? If I also do $ENV{PATH} = '/bin'; after that, the server gets farther before failing (this is with a fully static build - I'm giving up on APACI for now, I get link errors there). Now I get this error in t/logs/error_log: Insecure dependency in eval while running with -T switch. Callback called exit. Doesn't exactly tell me where to start looking for the error, anyone have hints? The above is the entire contents of the log. Doug has started fixing this problem, but didn't finish. See: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=10188093473r=1w=2 __ Stas BekmanJAm_pH -- Just Another mod_perl Hacker http://stason.org/ mod_perl Guide --- http://perl.apache.org mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://use.perl.org http://apacheweek.com http://modperlbook.org http://apache.org http://ticketmaster.com
Re: problems on OS X
On Sunday, April 28, 2002, at 04:48 PM, Stas Bekman wrote: it does solve the problem on linux. Ken, can you test the bleadperl? This fix was applied as a solution. If `pwd` doesn't work for you, that sucks! Meaning that the problem wasn't fixed in bleadperl :( Can you check the recent Cwd thread on p5p (started by me) and try running cwd.t under -T? All bleadperl tests pass for me, except 'ext/DB_File/t/db-recno' which I think is known to fail. Both Cwd tests pass, in particular: ext/Cwd/t/cwd...ok ext/Cwd/t/taint.ok But you mention running them with -T - how do I do that? If I also do $ENV{PATH} = '/bin'; after that, the server gets farther before failing (this is with a fully static build - I'm giving up on APACI for now, I get link errors there). Now I get this error in t/logs/error_log: Insecure dependency in eval while running with -T switch. Callback called exit. Doesn't exactly tell me where to start looking for the error, anyone have hints? The above is the entire contents of the log. Doug has started fixing this problem, but didn't finish. See: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=10188093473r=1w=2 Hmm, I'm now seeing different behavior than what I saw before. Using APACI and your Cwd.pm patch, the server never started, nor did it create t/logs/error_log. I just tried it now with a simple static build, though, and it did succeed. All mod_perl tests pass, though there are lots of warnings during the tests about Can't exec 'pwd': No such file or directory. That's to be expected? -Ken
Re: problems on OS X
Ken Williams wrote: On Sunday, April 28, 2002, at 04:48 PM, Stas Bekman wrote: it does solve the problem on linux. Ken, can you test the bleadperl? This fix was applied as a solution. If `pwd` doesn't work for you, that sucks! Meaning that the problem wasn't fixed in bleadperl :( Can you check the recent Cwd thread on p5p (started by me) and try running cwd.t under -T? All bleadperl tests pass for me, except 'ext/DB_File/t/db-recno' which I think is known to fail. Both Cwd tests pass, in particular: ext/Cwd/t/cwd...ok ext/Cwd/t/taint.ok But you mention running them with -T - how do I do that? you add -T, to ext/Cwd/t/cwd.t's shebang line, and run it as PERL_CORE=1 LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/stas/perl.org/perl-current ./perl ext/Cwd/t/cwd.t I think my patch untainting the test's code went in http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2002-04/msg01274.html If I also do $ENV{PATH} = '/bin'; after that, the server gets farther before failing (this is with a fully static build - I'm giving up on APACI for now, I get link errors there). Now I get this error in t/logs/error_log: Insecure dependency in eval while running with -T switch. Callback called exit. Doesn't exactly tell me where to start looking for the error, anyone have hints? The above is the entire contents of the log. Doug has started fixing this problem, but didn't finish. See: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=10188093473r=1w=2 Hmm, I'm now seeing different behavior than what I saw before. Using APACI and your Cwd.pm patch, the server never started, nor did it create t/logs/error_log. I just tried it now with a simple static build, though, and it did succeed. All mod_perl tests pass, though there are lots of warnings during the tests about Can't exec 'pwd': No such file or directory. That's to be expected? As you said earlier, my patch, fixed Cwd's _backtick_pwd under the taint mode on linux, but broke on yours. must be reported as a bug to p5p and fixed. 5.8.0 should be out any week now. I'm not sure what the alternative fix for the taint problem there, you cannot know where pwd util resides, so you cannot just say $ENV{PATH}='/bin/', can you? in any case let's move this discussion to p5p. __ Stas BekmanJAm_pH -- Just Another mod_perl Hacker http://stason.org/ mod_perl Guide --- http://perl.apache.org mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://use.perl.org http://apacheweek.com http://modperlbook.org http://apache.org http://ticketmaster.com
Re: problems on OS X
On Sunday, April 28, 2002, at 04:48 PM, Stas Bekman wrote: Ken Williams wrote: On Sunday, April 28, 2002, at 01:47 PM, Stas Bekman wrote: Ken, CWD.pm, has always suffered from taint problems. This problem has been fixed in the bleadperl, try this patch: --- /tmp/Cwd.pmSun Apr 28 11:44:38 2002 +++ /home/stas/perl.org/perl-5.6.1/lib/Cwd.pmFri Sep 14 17:09:10 2001 -89,7 +89,6 # The 'natural and safe form' for UNIX (pwd may be setuid root) sub _backtick_pwd { +local ENV{qw(PATH IFS CDPATH ENV BASH_ENV)}; my $cwd = `pwd`; # `pwd` may fail e.g. if the disk is full chomp($cwd) if defined $cwd; This still fails, because it won't find `pwd` without a path. it does solve the problem on linux. Ken, can you test the bleadperl? This fix was applied as a solution. I sent a message earlier today saying that this patch seems to help things, but I just noticed something disturbing. After hand-applying this patch to my CWD.pm from 5.6.1, I ran a 'perl Makefile.PL' for a different module (Apache::SSI), and it created the Makefile not in the current directory, but in my *home* directory! Weird. I don't know why it happened yet, but obviously this isn't a good thing. I don't see how this patch can be right - how is it supposed to execute `pwd` if there's nothing in $ENV{PATH}? -Ken
Re: problems on OS X
On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 12:39:32AM +1000, Ken Williams wrote: I sent a message earlier today saying that this patch seems to help things, but I just noticed something disturbing. After hand-applying this patch to my CWD.pm from 5.6.1, I ran a 'perl Makefile.PL' for a different module (Apache::SSI), and it created the Makefile not in the current directory, but in my *home* directory! Weird. I don't know why it happened yet, but obviously this isn't a good thing. Likely something passed chdir() an undef or '' which means chdir to $ENV{HOME}. Unfortunate shell holdover. Likely the pwd/chdir combination in eval_in_subdirs(). --- lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm 24 Apr 2002 05:30:36 - 1.44 +++ lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm 29 Apr 2002 04:06:20 - @@ -79,7 +79,8 @@ sub eval_in_subdirs { my($self) = @_; use Cwd qw(cwd abs_path); -my $pwd = cwd(); +my $pwd = cwd() || die Can't figure out your cwd!; + local @INC = map eval {abs_path($_) if -e} || $_, @INC; push @INC, '.'; # '.' has to always be at the end of @INC -- Michael G. Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl Quality Assurance [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kwalitee Is Job One You're the sickest teenager I've ever set my wallet on.
problems on OS X
Hi, I used to be able to compile mod_perl pretty easily on Mac OS X, but now for some reason (upgrades of modules? OS upgrades?) I'm having a lot of trouble getting past 'make test'. Here's what happens (no matter whether I compile statically with just EVERYTHING=1, or as a DSO as per http://david.wheeler.net/osx.html): [junior:~/Downloads/perl/mod_perl-1.26] ken% make test cp t/conf/mod_perl_srm.conf t/conf/srm.conf /usr/local/src/apache_1.3.23/src/httpd -f `pwd`/t/conf/httpd.conf -X -d `pwd`/t httpd listening on port 8529 will write error_log to: t/logs/error_log letting apache warm up...\c [Sun Apr 28 12:29:28 2002] [error] Insecure $ENV{PATH} while running with -T switch at /System/Library/Perl/Cwd.pm line 92. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /System/Library/Perl/ExtUtils/testlib.pm line 6. Compilation failed in require at /Users/ken/Downloads/perl/mod_perl-1.26/t//docs/startup.pl line 9. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /Users/ken/Downloads/perl/mod_perl-1.26/t//docs/startup.pl line 9. Compilation failed in require at (eval 1) line 1. It's possible that it might have something to do with ExtUtils::MakeMaker and its seedy friends, because I've been helping work on that and installing betas from time to time. But I'm not sure where to start looking at that. I'm currently using EU::MM 5.91_01. Any suggestions? -Ken % uname -a: Darwin junior 5.4 Darwin Kernel Version 5.4: Wed Apr 10 09:27:47 PDT 2002; root:xnu/xnu-201.19.3.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 6 subversion 1) configuration: Platform: osname=darwin, osvers=5.2, archname=darwin uname='darwin junior 5.2 darwin kernel version 5.2: fri dec 7 21:39:35 pst 2001; root:xnuxnu-201.14.obj~1release_ppc power macintosh powerpc ' config_args='-des -Dfirstmakefile=GNUmakefile -Dldflags=-flat_namespace' hint=previous, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef Compiler: cc='cc', ccflags ='-pipe -fno-common -DHAS_TELLDIR_PROTOTYPE -fno-strict-aliasing', optimize='-O3', cppflags='-pipe -fno-common -DHAS_TELLDIR_PROTOTYPE -fno-strict-aliasing' ccversion='', gccversion='Apple devkit-based CPP 6.02', gccosandvers='' intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=4321 d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=8 ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8 alignbytes=8, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='cc', ldflags ='-flat_namespace -L/usr/local/lib' libpth=/usr/local/lib /usr/lib libs=-lm -lc perllibs=-lm -lc libc=/System/Library/Frameworks/System.framework/System, so=dylib, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.dylib Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_dyld.xs, dlext=bundle, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' ' cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags='-flat_namespace -bundle -undefined suppress -L/usr/local/lib' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: USE_LARGE_FILES Built under darwin Compiled at 12/31/01 02:02:01 INC: /System/Library/Perl/darwin /System/Library/Perl /Library/Perl/darwin /Library/Perl /Library/Perl /Network/Library/Perl/darwin /Network/Library/Perl /Network/Library/Perl .
Re: problems on OS X
On Sunday, April 28, 2002, at 12:41 PM, Ken Williams wrote: I used to be able to compile mod_perl pretty easily on Mac OS X, but now for some reason (upgrades of modules? OS upgrades?) I'm having a lot of trouble getting past 'make test'. Here's what happens (no matter whether I compile statically with just EVERYTHING=1, or as a DSO as per http://david.wheeler.net/osx.html): Oops - as David pointed out to me, he doesn't recommend compiling as a DSO on that page. I should have said whether or not I compile Apache with mod_so. Or maybe whether I use APACI or build by hand. -Ken
Re: problems on OS X
Ken Williams wrote: Hi, I used to be able to compile mod_perl pretty easily on Mac OS X, but now for some reason (upgrades of modules? OS upgrades?) I'm having a lot of trouble getting past 'make test'. Here's what happens (no matter whether I compile statically with just EVERYTHING=1, or as a DSO as per http://david.wheeler.net/osx.html): [junior:~/Downloads/perl/mod_perl-1.26] ken% make test cp t/conf/mod_perl_srm.conf t/conf/srm.conf /usr/local/src/apache_1.3.23/src/httpd -f `pwd`/t/conf/httpd.conf -X -d `pwd`/t httpd listening on port 8529 will write error_log to: t/logs/error_log letting apache warm up...\c [Sun Apr 28 12:29:28 2002] [error] Insecure $ENV{PATH} while running with -T switch at /System/Library/Perl/Cwd.pm line 92. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /System/Library/Perl/ExtUtils/testlib.pm line 6. Compilation failed in require at /Users/ken/Downloads/perl/mod_perl-1.26/t//docs/startup.pl line 9. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /Users/ken/Downloads/perl/mod_perl-1.26/t//docs/startup.pl line 9. Compilation failed in require at (eval 1) line 1. It's possible that it might have something to do with ExtUtils::MakeMaker and its seedy friends, because I've been helping work on that and installing betas from time to time. But I'm not sure where to start looking at that. I'm currently using EU::MM 5.91_01. Any suggestions? Ken, CWD.pm, has always suffered from taint problems. This problem has been fixed in the bleadperl, try this patch: --- /tmp/Cwd.pm Sun Apr 28 11:44:38 2002 +++ /home/stas/perl.org/perl-5.6.1/lib/Cwd.pm Fri Sep 14 17:09:10 2001 @@ -89,7 +89,6 @@ # The 'natural and safe form' for UNIX (pwd may be setuid root) sub _backtick_pwd { -local @ENV{qw(PATH IFS CDPATH ENV BASH_ENV)}; my $cwd = `pwd`; # `pwd` may fail e.g. if the disk is full chomp($cwd) if defined $cwd; and if it works for you consider submitting it to Sarathy for 5.6.2. __ Stas BekmanJAm_pH -- Just Another mod_perl Hacker http://stason.org/ mod_perl Guide --- http://perl.apache.org mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://use.perl.org http://apacheweek.com http://modperlbook.org http://apache.org http://ticketmaster.com
Re: problems on OS X
Stas Bekman wrote: Ken Williams wrote: ... Ken, CWD.pm, has always suffered from taint problems. This problem has been fixed in the bleadperl, try this patch: --- /tmp/Cwd.pmSun Apr 28 11:44:38 2002 +++ /home/stas/perl.org/perl-5.6.1/lib/Cwd.pmFri Sep 14 17:09:10 2001 @@ -89,7 +89,6 @@ # The 'natural and safe form' for UNIX (pwd may be setuid root) sub _backtick_pwd { -local @ENV{qw(PATH IFS CDPATH ENV BASH_ENV)}; oops, s/^-/+/ here my $cwd = `pwd`; # `pwd` may fail e.g. if the disk is full chomp($cwd) if defined $cwd; and if it works for you consider submitting it to Sarathy for 5.6.2. __ Stas BekmanJAm_pH -- Just Another mod_perl Hacker http://stason.org/ mod_perl Guide --- http://perl.apache.org mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://use.perl.org http://apacheweek.com http://modperlbook.org http://apache.org http://ticketmaster.com -- __ Stas BekmanJAm_pH -- Just Another mod_perl Hacker http://stason.org/ mod_perl Guide --- http://perl.apache.org mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://use.perl.org http://apacheweek.com http://modperlbook.org http://apache.org http://ticketmaster.com
Re: problems on OS X
On Sunday, April 28, 2002, at 01:47 PM, Stas Bekman wrote: Ken, CWD.pm, has always suffered from taint problems. This problem has been fixed in the bleadperl, try this patch: --- /tmp/Cwd.pm Sun Apr 28 11:44:38 2002 +++ /home/stas/perl.org/perl-5.6.1/lib/Cwd.pm Fri Sep 14 17:09:10 2001 -89,7 +89,6 # The 'natural and safe form' for UNIX (pwd may be setuid root) sub _backtick_pwd { -local ENV{qw(PATH IFS CDPATH ENV BASH_ENV)}; my $cwd = `pwd`; # `pwd` may fail e.g. if the disk is full chomp($cwd) if defined $cwd; This still fails, because it won't find `pwd` without a path. If I also do $ENV{PATH} = '/bin'; after that, the server gets farther before failing (this is with a fully static build - I'm giving up on APACI for now, I get link errors there). Now I get this error in t/logs/error_log: Insecure dependency in eval while running with -T switch. Callback called exit. Doesn't exactly tell me where to start looking for the error, anyone have hints? The above is the entire contents of the log. -Ken