I posted this already, but haven't seen it come across so I'm trying again. Please forgive me if you've seen it before. I'm trying to build mod_perl as a DSO under Solaris 2.6 with Perl 5.6.0 and I'm having no luck. The system dumps core. I've tried enabling and disabling expat, I've tried building the core as a DSO, all with no luck. Here are the relevant details of my most recent unsuccessful attempt: 1. The Perl build: Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 6 subversion 0) configuration: Platform: osname=solaris, osvers=2.6, archname=sun4-solaris uname='sunos usl 5.6 generic_105181-17 sun4u sparc sunw,ultra-5_10 ' config_args='-Dbincompat5005 -Dprefix=/usrl1/home/pweiss/perl-56 -Doptimize=-O -g -Dcc=gcc -Uinstallusrbinperl -Accflags=-DPERL_POLLUTE -ds' hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef usesocks=undef Compiler: cc='gcc', optimize='-O -g', gccversion=2.8.1 cppflags='-DPERL_POLLUTE -DDEBUGGING -I/usr/local/include' ccflags ='-DPERL_POLLUTE -DDEBUGGING -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64' stdchar='unsigned char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=false intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8 d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16 ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8 alignbytes=8, usemymalloc=y, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='gcc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib ' libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib /usr/ccs/lib libs=-lsocket -lnsl -lgdbm -ldl -lm -lc -lcrypt -lsec libc=/lib/libc.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' ' cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-G -L/usr/local/lib' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: DEBUGGING USE_LARGE_FILES Built under solaris Compiled at Mar 29 2000 01:37:48 %ENV: PERL5LIB="/usrl1/home/pweiss/perllib" @INC: /usrl1/home/pweiss/perllib /usrl1/home/pweiss/perl-56/lib/5.6.0/sun4-solaris /usrl1/home/pweiss/perl-56/lib/5.6.0 /usrl1/home/pweiss/perl-56/lib/site_perl/5.6.0/sun4-solaris /usrl1/home/pweiss/perl-56/lib/site_perl/5.6.0 /usrl1/home/pweiss/perl-56/lib/site_perl 2. The modperl configuration (I've tried both 1.22 and the latest CVS version) perl Makefile.PL EVERYTHING=1 PERL_TRACE=1 USE_DSO=1 PERL_MARK_WHERE=1 3. The apache configuration (its 1.3.12): ./configure \ "--with-layout=Apache" \ "--prefix=/usrl1/home/pweiss/apache" \ "--activate-module=src/modules/perl/libperl.a" \ "--enable-module=rewrite" \ "--enable-module=proxy" \ "--enable-shared=perl" \ "--enable-shared=max" \ "$@" It then throws both feet in the air. Here is the backtrace: Starting program: /usrl1/home/pweiss/apache/bin/httpd -d . -f conf/httpd.conf Program received signal SIGBUS, Bus error. 0xef1f4820 in Perl_malloced_size (p=0xfffffff5) at malloc.c:1841 (gdb) bt #0 0xef1f4820 in Perl_malloced_size (p=0xfffffff5) at malloc.c:1841 #1 0xef24899c in Perl_sv_grow (sv=0xaf9b8, newlen=242) at sv.c:1139 #2 0xef253a70 in Perl_sv_vcatpvfn (sv=0xaf9b8, pat=0xf0 <Address 0xf0 out of bounds>, patlen=240, args=0xeffff67c, svargs=0x0, svmax=0, maybe_tainted=0x0) at sv.c:6354 #3 0xef2524f0 in Perl_sv_vsetpvfn (sv=0xaf9b8, pat=0xef2a0400 "%240s", patlen=5, args=0xeffff67c, svargs=0x0, svmax=0, maybe_tainted=0x0) at sv.c:5691 #4 0xef230d5c in Perl_vform (pat=0xef2a0400 "%240s", args=0xeffff67c) at util.c:1413 #5 0xef230d1c in Perl_form (pat=0xef2a0400 "%240s") at util.c:1404 #6 0xef1f13c4 in S_init_main_stash () at perl.c:2421 #7 0xef1ede18 in S_parse_body (env=0x0, xsinit=0xef1c77b4 <xs_init>) at perl.c:914 #8 0xef1edc60 in perl_parse (my_perl=0x0, xsinit=0xef1c77b4 <xs_init>, argc=2, argv=0xeffff8a8, env=0x0) at perl.c:857 #9 0xef1c2d1c in perl_startup (s=0xa3dd8, p=0xa3db0) at mod_perl.c:701 #10 0xef1c2538 in perl_module_init (s=0xa3dd8, p=0xa3db0) at mod_perl.c:590 #11 0x23af0 in ap_init_modules () #12 0x32284 in main () (gdb) I get the same result even if mod_perl is the only DSO and all the others are static. Please help! Thanks, Paul