Re: Apache segfaulting upon perl module load

nts to reduce the problem case to something more simple. If you have your build environment under control (all modules build using a coherent set of compilers and build flags) and want a very flexible solution with the same set of binaries on multiple hosts DSO's work fine, I use it all th

Re: mod_perl-1.21 and apache-1.3.9

er defines and options, with the worst case being the attempt to use different compilers. The perl developers for example did construct their build system for DSO's very reasonably, and they do fix compiler and options for plug-ins very rigorously. -- Jens-Uwe Mager HELIOS Software GmbH Steinriede 3 30827 Garbsen Germany Phone: +49 5131 709320 FAX:+49 5131 709325 Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

embperl pages and braindead sucking robots

e heck is this ExtractorPro thing? -- Jens-Uwe Mager HELIOS Software GmbH Steinriede 3 30827 Garbsen Germany Phone: +49 5131 709320 FAX:+49 5131 709325 Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: embperl pages and braindead sucking robots

to produce an error if there is a path info for a script that is not supposed to have one. -- Jens-Uwe Mager HELIOS Software GmbH Steinriede 3 30827 Garbsen Germany Phone: +49 5131 709320 FAX:+49 5131 709325 Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DSO slows things down?

e are few people that do really statically link in the system libraries into their programs (if that is possible at all on the machine in question). -- Jens-Uwe Mager HELIOS Software GmbH Steinriede 3 30827 Garbsen Germany Phone: +49 5131 709320 FAX:+49 5131 709325 Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why does Apache do this braindamaged dlclose/dlopen stuff?

uld *not* be dlclosed, EVEN IF THEY ARE NO LONGER IN THE CONFIG > FILE!!! I believe they did that on purpose, akin to the line let's see if we survive a complete restart as via apachectl restart. -- Jens-Uwe Mager HELIOS Software GmbH Steinriede 3 30827 Garbsen Germany Phone:

Re: make test fails on Embperl on AIX ...

at Jens Uwe > wrote to me in the FAQ > > http://perl.apache.org/embperl/Faq.pod.1.html#Embperl_and_mod_perl_on_AIX > > he also sends the patches to build Embperl on AIX, maybe he (or anybody else > on the list) has more ideas what's going wrong I appear to have missed the initial post, what

Re: Apache/mod_perl install on AIX 4.3.3 failing - maybe compiler?

with gcc's command line options. The perl module build system remembers all compiler options used to configure perl and re-applies these upon compiling perl modules. To use modperl you must compile all parts of the equation (apache, perl, modperl other perl modules) with exactly the same c

Re: Apache/mod_perl install on AIX 4.3.3 failing - maybe compiler?

think something along the lines of: CC="xlc -D_ALL_SOURCE" ./configure ... will do. I always add the -D_ALL_SOURCE so packages find the available but by default invisible extented BSD style functions without saying I want a pure BSD environment. -- Jens-Uwe Mager HELI

Re: Can't compile Connection.c (mod_perl) under AIX4.3.2 using gcc

barfs as it does not know that flag. You will need to compile everything using he same compiler, e.g. all with gcc or all with xlc. Especially perl modules need to use the exactly same compiler and flags as used in compiling the main perl. -- Jens-Uwe Mager HELIOS Software GmbH Steinriede 3 30827 Garbsen Germany Phone: +49 5131 709320 FAX:+49 5131 709325 Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: non-DSO mod_perl, Embperl, and AIX not working

ore or less is like ELF dynamic linking used under Linux or Solaris. Both Apache and Perl are only doing the classic AIX style dynamic linking, so you cannot use the Linker Option -G to turn on runtime linking for a module, you must use the -bE:export file -bM:SRE options instead. The option -berok

Re: non-DSO mod_perl, Embperl, and AIX not working (duplicate ?)

dules on AIX, so you pretty much have only one choice, namely use the IBM C compiler. I had more than one problem with gcc over the years, so I believe both compilers are on par problem wise. The IBM C compiler appears to produce much better code on POWER/PowerPC machines, so I stick with it. -- Jen

Re: non-DSO mod_perl, Embperl, and AIX not working

bI:/usr/local/apache/libexec/httpd.exp missing in the above linker command line. I would suspect that the embperl Makefile.PL could use an overhaul and use the new features of Apache::src to find the flags needed for linking a plug-in that needs to link both against perl and httpd. I also would r

Re: non-DSO mod_perl, Embperl, and AIX not working

as one global space. The AIX linker does not do that, it does explicitely require you to specify which global symbols enter the inter-module name space through the use of .exp files. If you link in global symbols from some .o files these are not global symbols for other shared objects unless being m

Re: non-DSO mod_perl, Embperl, and AIX not working

erent on AIX than on linux with gnutools. (Hey what happened to gcc > --shared? :-) I do not use gcc on AIX, I would believe that attempting to build anything that uses the more esoteric linker options that start with -b to royally screw up gcc. -- Jens-Uwe Mager HELIOS Software Gmb

Re: non-DSO mod_perl, Embperl, and AIX not working

t; make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 255 Well this surely looks like your Apache main part does not export the symbols in question, does a dump -nv httpd list the symbols in question like this? [207] 0x20007458.data EXP DS SECdef[noIMid] ap_table_set -- Jens-Uwe Mager H

Re: non-DSO mod_perl, Embperl, and AIX not working

mpting to load the Embperl into a plain perl interpreter, which will not work as it does not support the Apache symbols. I have to confess to have never run the test, it did always complain about some packages I do not have installed and thus I tested it in a live server with a set of my own pa

Re: non-DSO mod_perl, Embperl, and AIX not working

"/httpd.exp"; - push @ldflags, "-bI:$httpdexp" if -e $httpdexp; + if (-e $httpdexp) { + push @ldflags, "-bI:$httpdexp"; + } else { + $httpdexp = $self->dir . "/support/httpd.exp"; + push @ldflags, "-bI

Re: Perl 5.6 patch for AIX available ?

he > > following patch to perl 5.005_3 does fix that problem: > > > Is there a Perl 5.6 patch available ? Yes, I submitted it to perl5-porters in the hope that it would be included, but I was probably late by a day or so for the perl 5.6 release. -- Jens-Uwe Mager HELIOS Software G

Re: perl_cmd_perl_TAKE*

in > particular the apache install dir, and libs dirs.) The link line is missing the import files for modperl and apache, You can find out the needed extra command line switches from modperl: $ perl -MApache::src -le 'print Apache::src->new->otherldflags;' -bI:/usr/local/lib/

Re: Fw: Core Dump @ boot_IO with apache_1.3.12 and mod_perl-1.24

iles. If you want to avoid fighting against different compiler option syntaxes for specifying the linker options to link plug-in modules you should compile all of the modules that should end up in one process using one and only one compiler. -- Jens-Uwe Mager HELIOS Software GmbH Steinriede 3 3

Re: AIX, dlopen problem?

e. If that still does not work, I would need to examine the exact link command line and the output of "dump -nv AuthenKerberos.so". -- Jens-Uwe Mager HELIOS Software GmbH Steinriede 3 30827 Garbsen Germany Phone: +49 5131 709320 FAX:+49 5131 709325 Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Perl as DSO...whats wrong with it, specifically?

w weeks to get the server memory footprint back to normal. -- Jens-Uwe Mager HELIOS Software GmbH Steinriede 3 30827 Garbsen Germany Phone: +49 5131 709320 FAX:+49 5131 709325 Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Perl as DSO...whats wrong with it, specifically?

test mod_perl and apache from CVS (as of June 9, 2000 at least). There are a few patches necessary that must be applied to the _perl_ distribution to fix bugs I did in the original dl_aix.xs from perl around 1992 or so. But the latest CVS versions work fine on my AIX boxes. -- Jens-Uwe Mager HEL

Re: Perl as DSO...whats wrong with it, specifically?

> use perl 5.6 as well - but ran into more problems (unrelated?) then I had > w/ 5.00503. That is strange - what kind of errors do you get? -- Jens-Uwe Mager HELIOS Software GmbH Steinriede 3 30827 Garbsen Germany Phone: +49 5131 709320 FAX:+49 5131 709325 Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: AIX, dlopen problem?

> and the other - I am assuming this is something random and > circumstantial.) I use the following for configuring mod_perl: perl Makefile.PL USE_APXS=1 EVERYTHING=1 WITH_APXS=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs -- Jens-Uwe Mager HELIOS Software GmbH Steinriede 3 30827 Garbsen Germany Phone: +49 5131 709320 FAX:+49 5131 709325 Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Perl as DSO...whats wrong with it, specifically?

On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 11:57:56PM +0200, Jens-Uwe Mager wrote: > >From the last post from you I have you appeared to use mod_perl-1.22. > What exactly have you been using? Oops - I did misread, you said you are using 1.24. -- Jens-Uwe Mager HELIOS Software GmbH Steinriede 3 3082

Re: Perl as DSO...whats wrong with it, specifically?

ccessx(): A file or directory in the path name does not exist. Oops, the build process appears to be rather broken in the AIX case without APXS, this needs fixing. Does anybody know why there are so many ways to build mod_perl? And what is actually the most important way to build it? I always assumed

Re: AIX 4.3.2, perl 5.6, mod_perl 1.24, apache 1.3.12 installation problems

install Apache with module support): perl Makefile.PL USE_APXS=1 EVERYTHING=1 \ WITH_APXS=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs -- Jens-Uwe Mager HELIOS Software GmbH Steinriede 3 30827 Garbsen Germany Phone: +49 5131 709320 FAX:+49 5131 709325 Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Modifying the reported size in a directory index

plain perl? -- Jens-Uwe Mager HELIOS Software GmbH Steinriede 3 30827 Garbsen Germany Phone: +49 5131 709320 FAX:+49 5131 709325 Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

anon CVS of modperl hangs?

I am trying to do an anon cvs update of modperl and it appears to hang without doing anything. I can cvs upd other projects. Could anyone try that and look if it works? -- Jens-Uwe Mager HELIOS Software GmbH Steinriede 3 30827 Garbsen Germany Phone: +49 5131 709320 FAX:+49

PATCH: AIX build fix for the apaci style build

hared=include" I also tested the build procedure using the apxs tool like this: perl Makefile.PL USE_APXS=1 EVERYTHING=1 WITH_APXS=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs this still works but has the problem of the memory leak at server restart. -- Jens-Uwe Mager HELIOS Software GmbH Steinriede 3 308

Re: Help compiling!

ms. You can simply try to add these to the aix case in makedef.pl (of the perl-5.6.0 distribution) by adding some emit_symbol statements with Perl_whichsig and Perl_rsignal_state and rebuilding perl. Ultimately this should be checked with the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. -- Jens-Uwe Mager HELIOS Software GmbH Steinriede 3 30827 Garbsen Germany Phone: +49 5131 709320 FAX:+49 5131 709325 Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Question about suggested AIX patch to perl.

those folks that build their perl from sources, e.g. by downloading the .tar.gz file from CPAN. To find out if you have the problem you will need to use a perl XS module that also needs to reference symbols from the Apache core, for example HTML::Embperl or libapreq. These modules will dump core witho

Re: open(FH,'|qmail-inject') fails

pass email addresses on command lines. This is much more secure and relies instead on sendmail's rather largish machinery to parse email adresses. -- Jens-Uwe Mager HELIOS Software GmbH Steinriede 3 30827 Garbsen Germany Phone: +49 5131 709320 FAX:+49 5131 709325 Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problem building mod_perl on AIX with apxs DSO style

et strange errors otherwise: --- src/support/httpd.exp.orig Wed Mar 1 16:35:34 2000 +++ src/support/httpd.exp Wed Mar 1 16:35:42 2000 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -#! . +#! ap_MD5Encode ap_MD5Final ap_MD5Init > Perl-5.6.0 with AIX patch distributed by Jens-Uwe Mager on this list > a few month

Re: Memory Usage

d_perl is compiled as a DSO, httpd will completely unload and reload all DSO's on a restart and cause all global/static variables to be reset to NULL, forgetting all traces about previously allocated memory. If mod_perl is built statically, it will not be reloaded and thus all global/static variables

Re: Memory Usage

together. I am wondering if other folks that embed perl interpreters into their applications are having similar problems. I would believe that is a general perl bug. -- Jens-Uwe Mager HELIOS Software GmbH Steinriede 3 30827 Garbsen Germany Phone: +49 5131 709320 FAX:+49 5131 7

Re: Memory Usage

che.org/docs/dso.html" Wait a sec, not _Apache DSO's_ in general are experimental, these appear to work quite fine. The problem is with mod_perl as a DSO, that is one particular Apache module that has the problem. And this is probably not even mod_perl's fault but the way perl itself is

Re: Memory Usage

can easily increase the value, or remove it > altogether. Any recommendations?" I do not think that this is a problem, as if a client dies after it has done it's number of requests it will not load and reload all DSO's, it will just fork a fresh copy of the master and be done with it. I thin

Re: [OFF] strace

r > with Dec Unix? Well, that strace under DEC Unix is not what you think, it is a System V streams trace utility. As far as I know there is no system call trace utility on DEC Unix. -- Jens-Uwe Mager HELIOS Software GmbH Steinriede 3 30827 Garbsen Germany Phone: +49 5131 709320 FAX:

Re: mod_perl-1.24_01 problems under AIX

he perl build procedure was done using the IBM C compiler and it adds -bE:/path/to/perl.exp to the command line to build perl, but this compiler option means something completely different to gcc, causing the strange error. If you want to use gcc to build mod_perl, you will also have to use gcc to

Re: RFC: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

and perl moduless built using a exactly the same compiler and a coherent set of compiler flags. -- Jens-Uwe Mager HELIOS Software GmbH Steinriede 3 30827 Garbsen Germany Phone: +49 5131 709320 FAX:+49 5131 709325 Internet: [EMAIL

Re: Problem Building Mod_Perl 1.24_01 under AIX and gcc

lib/E:./modules/perl/mod_perl.exp/egcs-2.91.60/' > never used > make: The error code from the last command is 1. You must compile all of perl, mod_perl and apache using the same compiler. In your case perl was compiled using the IBM C compiler, and the perl build procedure introduces co

Re: Apache 1.3.14 build

n support,regex. directories > but terminated prematually with warning message for "Apache Version 1.3.0 > required, aborting.." Use the cvs version of mod_perl or one of the recent snapshots, the version number definition in Apache changed recently causing confusion in older mod_per

Re: ANNOUNCE: Embperl 2.0b1

n can also be fetched from an FTP archive, but for development versions this is a bit painful. -- Jens-Uwe Mager HELIOS Software GmbH Steinriede 3 30827 Garbsen Germany Phone: +49 5131 709320 FAX:+49 5131 709325 Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: libapreq-0.31_03

retrieve these flags if needed. -- Jens-Uwe Mager HELIOS Software GmbH Steinriede 3 30827 Garbsen Germany Phone: +49 5131 709320 FAX:+49 5131 709325 Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: Cookie/Cookie.xs

Re: Modifying the reported size in a directory index

info($stat); #changed size will be reflected in dirindex output > 0; > } Wow! Thanks for making that available, it exactly does what I wanted. I just patched my modperl with the patch and also installed Sys::Stat and use the new module in my MacBinary fixup handler and it works beautifully.

Re: Apache::Registry + errors in a browser

$package, ';', $line, $$code, "\n", ); $pr->{'sub'} = \$sub; } 1; That way I can try my perl content handlers by just commenting out the package statement just like

Re: ap_configtestonly

nly once for each function it appears in) This symbol was only used for a short while from modperl until it was found that this is supposed to be a private Apache symbol. I believe 1.24_1 does not use it anymore, so upgrade modperl to a newer version. -- Jens-Uwe Mager HELIOS Software GmbH S

Re: [OT] XML::DOM

ably, so most people turned it off. If this still applies today, I have no idea. I still know a few platforms that do not support loading C++ code from a loadable plug-in (dll, shared object) if the main program is not a C++ program. -- Jens-Uwe Mager HELIOS Software GmbH Steinriede 3 30827 Gar

Re: Compiling mod_perl 1.24 with the Sun Solaris C Compiler

compiler, that means in the modperl case all of Apache, Apache plug-ins, perl and perl plug-ins should be compiled using the Sun Workshop C compiler. Mixing compilers arbitrarily is asking for trouble. -- Jens-Uwe Mager HELIOS Software GmbH Steinriede 3 30827 Garbsen Germany Phone: +49 5131 709320 FAX:+49 5131 709325 Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mod_perl as DSO on AIX with perl-5.6

arises causing Apache module loads to fail. -- Jens-Uwe Mager HELIOS Software GmbH Steinriede 3 30827 Garbsen Germany Phone: +49 5131 709320 FAX:+49 5131 709325 Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mod_perl and DSO

n old S5R4 machines you must build perl with a shared core. -- Jens-Uwe Mager HELIOS Software GmbH Steinriede 3 30827 Garbsen Germany Phone: +49 5131 709320 FAX:+49 5131 709325 Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mod_perl as DSO on AIX with perl-5.6

01 @@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ ---EOP--- } elsif ($PLATFORM eq 'aix') { -print "#!\n"; +print "#! .\n"; } my %skip; -- Jens-Uwe Mager HELIOS Software GmbH Steinriede 3 30827 Garbsen Germany Phone: +49 5131 709320 FAX:+49 5131 709325 Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gsar@ActiveState.com: v5.6.1 trial2 is available]

bably need to change the modperl.exp file to include the magic "#! ." instead of simply "#!" at the beginning, this signals the native dlopen to import symbols from the main program. The patch already does that in makedef.pl for the perl.exp file, but only on AIX 4.3 and above because

Re: [AIX] [gsar@ActiveState.com: v5.6.1 trial2 is available]

ulation I did in the past handled that differently. The dot thing means importing from the main program, whereas before without the dot it meant import later by use of the loadbind() system call explicetely. But the native dlopen from AIX does not use loadbind(), so the old plug-ins references ba

Re: Defining $PERL_CC

build modperl with a different C compiler than perl itself, this is not going to work. Especially the gcc command line options are different enough from the ones the IBM C compiler understands, and the modperl build procedure relies on the values recorded at the time perl was build. -- Jens-Uwe Mager H

Re: Defining $PERL_CC

Zend -I/usr > /local/sources/php/php-4.0.4pl1 -DUSE_EXPAT -I../../lib/expat-lite > -DNO_DL_NEEDED `../../apaci` -c mod_perl.c > /bin/sh: -I: not found. That is pretty strange. What does the following command produce on your machine: perl -MConfig -le 'print $Config{"cc"};&

Re: modPerl build failure

The error code from the last command is 1. The perl executable was build using the IBM C compiler and you attempt to build modperl with gcc, this does not work as both must be build using the same compiler. You will have to rebuild perl if you want to use gcc. -- Jens-Uwe Mager HELIOS Software

Re: [gsar@ActiveState.com: v5.6.1 trial2 is available]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 05:57:20PM -0800, Gurusamy Sarathy wrote: > There is a change in behavior here that looks somewhat suspect > because the comments didn't mention it. > > >On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 09:32:04PM +0100, Jens-Uwe Mager wrote: > >> +#ifdef USE_NATI

Re: Compress::Zlib problem

press::Zlib::crc32(substr($buf, 0, $len), $o->{crc}); $o->{len} += $len; return $len; } sub CLOSE { my ($o) = @_; return if !defined( $o->{dh}); my ($buf) = $o->{dh}->flush(); $buf .= pack("V V", $o->{crc}, $o->{len});

Re: [Patch] Apache->dso_module() to find if a module is loaded as DSO or not

does keep its global variable allocations around. It probably needs a function that destroys all it's global allocations. -- Jens-Uwe Mager HELIOS Software GmbH Steinriede 3 30827 Garbsen Germany Phone: +49 5131 709320 FAX:+49 5131 709325 Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Prblem in loading modules

ntion here a few days ago and all should work fine. -- Jens-Uwe Mager HELIOS Software GmbH Steinriede 3 30827 Garbsen Germany Phone: +49 5131 709320 FAX:+49 5131 709325 Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mod_perl DSO leaking on restart?

hem) that my httpd grows bigger and > bigger as time passes. My mod_perl is a DSO (I run two copies of httpd, > one without mod_perl and one with; I set it up as a DSO since this way I > only need one executable). Should I recompile it statically linked? I had the same problems, afte

Patches for perl 5.6.1, Apache and modperl for the AIX 4.3 native dlopen

PGP message

Re: Perm Module VM_Monitor (fwd)

perl delivered with AIX, you will have to install your own local perl version. You may get around compiling apache itself by using the rtl_enable command on the httpd executable, as the patch for Apache does just that but at compile time. -- Jens-Uwe Mager HELIOS Software GmbH Steinriede 3 3082

Re: Unable to build apache + mod_perl on AIX

gt; point). The problem is perl itself here - it is probably compiled using xlc. Just run perl -V and look at the output. If you want to build Apache and modperl using gcc than you _must_ also build perl using gcc. This means you can not use the perl which is part of AIX, as this is built using xlc

Re: boot_IO error

e. The patch is in three parts and can be found at: <http://www.han.de/~jum/aix/> download the following files: apache_1.3.19.rtl.patch modperl.rtl.patch perl-5.6.1.dlopen.patch The apache_1.3.19.rtl.patch does also apply to 1.3.20 cleanly. -- Jens-Uwe Mager HELIOS Softwar

Re: Problems building Bundle::Apache - libapreq-0.33

file is less than helpful, and > a search of the modperl archives didn't find anything. Did you make install modperl yet? -- Jens-Uwe Mager HELIOS Software GmbH Steinriede 3 30827 Garbsen Germany Phone: +49 5131 709320 FAX:+49 5131 709325 Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problems building Bundle::Apache - libapreq-0.33

On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 11:08:43AM +0100, Alan Burlison wrote: > Jens-Uwe Mager wrote: > > > Did you make install modperl yet? > > Yes, via APXS. mod_perl is installed and works just fine. I can see the > missing mod_perl.h file in the modperl build directory, but it does

Re: embperl

ile your perl with gcc. As mod_perl picks up the compiler settings from the perl installation you must first compile perl with the proper compiler. But IBM does ship perl compiled using their compiler, so if you are lazy and do not recompile perl you are hosed. -- Jens-Uwe Mager HELIOS Software