mod_perl

[Damyan Ivanov]

-=| Ruben Safir, 29.09.2017 02:31:18 -0400 |=-
> 
> I have a number of custom packages and projects that are dependent on
> mod_perl and require that I compile it.  I've never had trouble with
> this, until now.  It seems to be quiet a mess.  It dies silently without
> logging anything or leaving a core.  strace says it dies with exit code
> of 3, and I have not being able to discover what that means, even
> grepping accorss the source code.
> 
> The trace is at http://www.mrbrklyn.com/tmp.txt

The last lines there suggest there is a failed attempt to load 
a module named 'URL_BLOCK'. Perhaps you need to "use lib" in your 
code?

> Any thoughts you might have about compliiing it, I'm all ears at 
> this point.

You have contacted the Debian maintainers of mod_perl. Perhaps you 
wanted to mail upstream authors at <modperl at perl.apache.org>?

Anyway, even if not directly usable, the recipe for compiling the 
Debian package of mod_perl is available at [1].

    [1] https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-perl/packages/libapache2-mod-perl2.git/tree/debian/rules

There are several patches[2] applied as well.

    [2] https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-perl/packages/libapache2-mod-perl2.git/tree/debian/patches

In case you are using Debian, there should not be reasons not to use 
the readily built package (libapache2-mod-perl2).


Cheers,
    dam