Doug - Thanks very much for the answer - I was missing something obvious. Along the way I discovered that the Perl Configure file was putting a space after the -R attribute - which was causing gcc to toss it's cookies on the Apache test compile (it was trying to treat the CORE directory as a file). I reported that to Perl Bug - since after I changed that the Apache test compile ran clean. I did eventually get to the point you suggest - but got core dumps when I started Apache. I read of someone else getting the same thing on 2.6 and gave up dynamic loading, linked static and now things are running. But, I do appreciate your answer and I'm filing it in my folder about compiling on UNIX - it is helpful. KenMc -----Original Message----- From: Doug MacEachern [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 30, 1999 10:49 PM To: McNamara, Ken Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Install Problem - Cannot load libperl.so On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, McNamara, Ken wrote: > I'm compiling and installing Apache with mod_perl on a Solaris 2.6 system. > Compiler is gcc 2.5.8 > > Please look at the install notes below - I feel I'm missing something > obvious - but what? > $ perl Makefile.PL EVERYTHING=1 > $ make > # make install you did not tell mod_perl to build a dso. > Then cd to Apache and everything seemed to work except libperl.so didn't > exist (note below) > > $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache \ > --activate-module=src/modules/perl/libperl.a \ > --enable-shared=perl > > > Configuring for Apache, Version 1.3.9 > + using installation path layout: Apache (config.layout) > + activated perl module (modules/perl/libperl.a) libperl.a links mod_perl static. if you've already installed Apache, try this from appendixb of the eagle book. -Doug =head2 Building mod_perl as a DSO Once an Apache server installation is already in place, mod_perl can be built as DSO without an Apache source tree handy. Example: perl Makefile.PL USE_APXS=1 APACHE_PREFIX=/usr/local/apache EVERYTHING=1 ... The B<USE_APXS> option tells mod_perl to build itself using the Apache I<apxs> tool. The Makefile.PL will look for I<apxs> under the I<bin/> and I<sbin/> directories relative to B<APACHE_PREFIX>. If I<apxs> happens to be installed elsewhere, simply use the full path name for the value of the B<USE_APXS> attribute: perl Makefile.PL USE_APXS=/usr/sbin/apxs EVERYTHING=1 ... Provided an B<APACHE_PREFIX> attribute was passed to the Makefile.PL script, running I<make install> will install and configure the mod_perl DSO library along with installing the Perl libraries. If no B<APACHE_PREFIX> attribute was specified, simply copy the new I<apaci/libperl.so> library to anywhere you choose.
