Thank you, Doug. This turned out to be the solution. A complicating
factor was that I was building from .deb files, since I run Debian, and
the mod_perl source .deb blows up. I wanted to do things in such a way
that I ended up with good .debs, to make it easier to deinstall,
replace, etc.
I did manage to build an Apache deb file with statically linked
mod_perl. This works.
If anyone is interested in the deb, let me know. If there is a good
common place to post it, let me know that, too. Otherwise, I can stick
it up on my web site.
I'd like to make a source deb, too, with the extra stuff needed for
static mod_perl, but I'm not too sure about how to go about that.
By the way, I've noticed that folks are having the same problem with
RPMs from RedHat.
I hope the developers just get it all fixed soon. ;-) (I have filed a
bug report with Debian).
Doug MacEachern wrote:
>
> one solution is to build Apache and mod_perl from source, and linking
> mod_perl static instead of a dso.
>
> -Doug
>
> On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Keith G. Murphy wrote:
>
> > I'm having a strange problem where apache is segfaulting when I start
> > it. The only time I get the segfault is when DynaLoader.pm loads an
> > ".so" file, for example, DBI.so, resulting from "use DBI" or "use
> > Apache::DBI" in startup.pl. But "use Apache::Status", resulting in
> > loads of Request.so, et al, also causes the segfault.
> >
> > I'm running Debian Linux, Slink, kernel 2.0.36.
> > The relevant Debian packages are:
> > apache-1.3.9-8
> > libapache-mod-perl-1.21-5
> > libc6-2.1.2-5
> > libdbi-perl_1.12-1 (that's where the DBI.so comes from)
> >
> > I've tried compiling and using the packages from CPAN also, but get the
> > same thing. I don't feel at this point it's the .so files themselves,
> > but a problem with apache or mod-perl.
> >
> > I should mention, though, that this problem seemed to go away Friday
> > upon an Apache reinstall, only to start recurring, which made me suspect
> > hardware problems. Memory tests show nothing, though, and the problem
> > is consistent and isolated to this situation.
> >
> > Anyone else have problems with this configuration or have any clue where
> > to look next?
> >
> > TIA.
> >