Thank you very much. Enabling dynamic loading helped.
Bruce Johnson wrote:
>
> Eugene,
>
> I just finished (I think) dealing with that same blamed error
> about not being able to find symbol "main". Here are my notes on
> how I did my build on Solaris 2.6:
>
> 1- Built Perl5.005.02
> a- Configure settings:
> No threading
> use Perl's malloc
> Nm extracts C libraries
> Dynamic loading = yes.
> Build shared libperl.so
> No vfork
> b- setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH `pwd` because Configure warned me
> to do this.
> c- make; make test; make install (only if tests succeeded)
>
> 2- Installed LWP packages because mod_perl's test is going to
> need them:
> libnet
> HTML-Parser
> MIME-Base 64
> URI
> Digest-MD5
> libwww-perl (LWP)
>
> 3- Installed CGI.pm, although I'm still not clear if this is
> necessary with Apache::Registry. (Anyone who is willing to
> enlighten me, please do so, but make it a separate thread.)
>
> 4- Built Apache 1.3.6 w/ mod_perl 1.21:
> Checked path to ensure new Perl is the one I'm using.
> cd mod_perl-1.21
> perl Makefile.PL DO_HTTPD=1 USE_APACI=1 \
> PREP_HTTPD=1 EVERYTHING=1
> make
> make install (may not have been needed)
>
> cd ../apache_1.3.6
> ./configure --enable-prefix=/where/ever \
> --enable-rule=SHARED_CORE \
> --with-perl=/path/to/perl/executable \
> --with-layout=Apache \
> --activate-module=src/module/perl/libperl.a \
> --enable-module=so
>
> (I added other stuff, but it's not germane to the discussion)
> make
> make install
> cd ../mod_perl-1.21
> make test (everything passed)
> make install
>
> The reason I did an install of Apache before I went back to
> mod_perl to do the make test is that in previous attempts, if I
> tried to test mod_perl without installing Apache, it complained
> about some library not being in either the Apache directory or
> the Perl directory. And I did the last install of mod_perl
> because although all my tests passed, when I fired up httpd in
> the target Apache directory, it curled up and died with the
> "unknown symbol main" stuff that's biting you now.
>
> I may be doing this wrong, but I tried following the installation
> directions in mod_perl installation docs and the Apache docs and
> met with failure, possibly because my libperl.a file was mucked
> up from an even earlier attempt. And so far the new server
> hasn't given me any trouble yet.
>
> I hope this helps!
> --
> Bruce A. Johnson PictureVision, Inc.
> Sr. Software Engineer 250-A Exchange Pl.
> (703)925-4075 Herndon, VA 20170
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