This is in followup to my emails of last week. After much frustration with trying to get (much less understand) gdb to capture some sort of stack trace, I trawled through mailing list archives for both modperl and dbi-users in an attempt to find some piece of information I had missed. What I found was an article from last year in dbi-users which suggested the use of both the -lcl and -lpthreads flags for anyone compiling DBD::Oracle on an HP-UX 11 server. I had seen the suggestion to use -lcl (and was using it religiously), but using -lpthreads? Anyway, I started recompiling everything late last PM with -lpthreads. Perl compiled, passed 'make test'. Ditto DBI. DBD::Oracle was another story, failing 'make test' with ORA-12157 errors. On my way out to the car after giving up, it hit me: if Perl compiled with -lpthreads was giving me the same error that the web server was throwing, was *Apache* compiled with -lpthreads?? I checked through the apache source tree first thing this AM. Sure enough, line 350 in src/Configure had an -lpthreads flag as part of the LIBS variable for HP-UX 11 builds. I commented that line out, put in a 'LIBS=' line just below that *didn't* include -lpthreads, and started rebuilding. Everything built and passed 'make test' as it usually does. The important difference, though, is that my test script now WORKS under mod_perl. I suppose I should report this to the apache bug-tracking system or something, but I'm still busy celebrating my early Christmas present. :-) Ges
