I wanted to use Apache2::Reload but find that it's not included with the base mod_perl distribution (at least on Centos 6.6). No problem, I'll just fire up cpan and build it:
cpan[1]> install Apache2::Reload CPAN: Storable loaded ok (v2.20) Reading '/root/.cpan/Metadata' Database was generated on Thu, 09 Jul 2015 19:54:32 GMT Running install for module 'Apache2::Reload' CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok (v5.833) CPAN: Time::HiRes loaded ok (v1.9721) Fetching with LWP: http://www.perl.org/CPAN/authors/id/S/SH/SHAY/Apache-Reload-0.13.tar.gz CPAN: YAML loaded ok (v0.70) CPAN: Digest::SHA loaded ok (v5.47) Fetching with LWP: http://www.perl.org/CPAN/authors/id/S/SH/SHAY/CHECKSUMS Checksum for /root/.cpan/sources/authors/id/S/SH/SHAY/Apache-Reload-0.13.tar.gz ok Scanning cache /root/.cpan/build for sizes DONE CPAN: Archive::Tar loaded ok (v1.58) Apache-Reload-0.13/ Apache-Reload-0.13/Changes Apache-Reload-0.13/lib/ Apache-Reload-0.13/lib/Apache/ Apache-Reload-0.13/lib/Apache/Reload.pm Apache-Reload-0.13/lib/Apache2/ Apache-Reload-0.13/lib/Apache2/Reload.pm Apache-Reload-0.13/LICENSE Apache-Reload-0.13/Makefile.PL Apache-Reload-0.13/MANIFEST Apache-Reload-0.13/META.json Apache-Reload-0.13/META.yml Apache-Reload-0.13/README Apache-Reload-0.13/RELEASE Apache-Reload-0.13/t/ Apache-Reload-0.13/t/all.t Apache-Reload-0.13/t/conf/ Apache-Reload-0.13/t/conf/extra.last.conf.in Apache-Reload-0.13/t/lib/ Apache-Reload-0.13/t/lib/Apache/ Apache-Reload-0.13/t/lib/Apache/TestReload.pm Apache-Reload-0.13/t/lib/Apache2/ Apache-Reload-0.13/t/lib/Apache2/TestReload.pm Apache-Reload-0.13/t/reload.t CPAN: File::Temp loaded ok (v0.22) CPAN: CPAN::Meta::Requirements loaded ok (v2.133) CPAN: Parse::CPAN::Meta loaded ok (v1.40) CPAN: Module::CoreList loaded ok (v2.18) Configuring S/SH/SHAY/Apache-Reload-0.13.tar.gz with Makefile.PL Undefined subroutine &Symbol::gensym called at Makefile.PL line 91. Warning: No success on command[/usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=site] SHAY/Apache-Reload-0.13.tar.gz /usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=site -- NOT OK Failed during this command: SHAY/Apache-Reload-0.13.tar.gz : writemakefile NO '/usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=site' returned status 65280 Googling "Undefined subroutine &Symbol::gensym" turns up only 4 hits, all of them from 2004. Any suggestions on how to troubleshoot? -- Jim Garrison (j...@acm.org) PGP Keys at http://www.jhmg.net RSA 0x04B73B7F DH 0x70738D88