Mark,
>> After updating perl on my netbsd system, I encountered the same issue
>> with amavis indicating that Compress::Zlib was missing. The error
>> message is somewhat misleading. The module exists, it just fails to load.
>
> Right. I encountered such problems in the past. My simple attempt
> to produce a more informative diagnostics resulted in two lines
> in sub fetch_modules:
>
> printf STDERR ("fetch_modules: error loading module %s :\n%s\n", $_,
> join("\n", map {"> $_"} split(/\n/,$eval_stat)));
>
> (or its variants) which I had to comment out, as it was either
> too chatty or failed to report relevant problem, like a module file
> being too strongly protected, so it was useless.
>
> The original sin is in a perl's "require", which treats inaccessible
> files the same as missing files.
>
> To do it right, a better alternative to 'require' is needed.
>
> So here it is - a patch to amavisd (2.5.2) to produce a more
> meaningful diagnostics in case of compile errors in modules,
> or module files not being accessible. I'd be interested in a
> feedback if this is a viable solution for half-screwed systems -
> - for example in case of having two instances of a module in
> an @INC path and one of them is broken, my solution produces a
> proper diagnostics, while originally the broken module is ignored.
FYI:
I finally had a chance to install and try the patch (into 2.5.3 rather
than 2.5.2).
The error messages I encountered were:
fetch_modules: error loading required module Compress/Zlib.pm:
Error in file /usr/pkg/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/Compress/Zlib.pm:
is only avaliable with the XS version at
/usr/pkg/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/Compress/Zlib.pm line 9
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
/usr/pkg/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/Compress/Zlib.pm line 9.
ERROR: MISSING REQUIRED BASIC MODULES:
Compress::Zlib
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/sbin/amavisd line 216.
However the actual problem is on line 9 of Compress/Zlib.pm, which
happens to be:
use Scalar::Util qw(dualvar);
It was Scalar::Util that needed to be rebuilt. Once rebuilt, amavis
started successfully.
Mike
>
>
> Mark
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