Re: Resurrection of startup SIGSEGV with latest CVS snapshot?

[Doug MacEachern]

On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Bruce W. Hoylman wrote:

> 
> Ciao!
> 
> With the latest modperl from CVS, all tests pass during build/test
> phase.  However it coredumps when used with my http.conf/startup.pl
> files.  An earlier CVS release of modperl (modperl_20000911162240)
> functions as expected.  Both modperl revisions have the perl_util.c
> patch applied and perl 5.6 has been patched based on information from
> p5p regarding cop.h and threads.  These patches solved an earlier
> SIGSEGV problem (similiar to this one?).

this looks exactly like the problem that should be solved by the patch i
sent you originally, can you try this?

--- perl_util.c~        Tue Jun 13 10:25:38 2000
+++ perl_util.c Tue Jun 13 11:16:45 2000
@@ -547,12 +547,14 @@
 {
     dTHR;
     SV *sv = sv_newmortal();
+    COP *old_cop = curcop;
     dTHRCTX;
 
     sv_setpvn(sv, "require ", 8);
     MP_TRACE_d(fprintf(stderr, "loading perl module '%s'...", name)); 
     sv_catpv(sv, name);
     perl_eval_sv(sv, G_DISCARD);
+    curcop = old_cop;
     if(s) {
        if(perl_eval_ok(s) != OK) {
            MP_TRACE_d(fprintf(stderr, "not ok\n"));