non-DSO mod_perl, Embperl, and AIX not working (duplicate ?)

[Greg Estep <ge...@thinkronize.com>]

Sorry if this is a duplicate.  I sent the message yesterday, but I haven't
seen it posted back to me via the list.  We have recently been having
problems with our email services...

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I am using IBM's C complier (cc) under AIX 4.3.3 with Apache 1.3.12,
mod_perl 1.24 (statically linked, not DSO), perl 5.00503, and Embperl
1.3b3.

The "offline", "execute function", and "cgi mode" Embperl tests are
all successful. In the "mod_perl" mode, even the simple "ascii" test
fails.  It fails with a seg. fault and a dbx stack trace that looks
like this:

ap_palloc() at 0xd1179d98
EMBPERL__malloc() at 0xd1178b98
EMBPERL_SetupFileData() at 0xd1177118
EMBPERL_SetupRequest() at 0xd1177764
XS_HTML__Embperl_SetupRequest() at 0xd116fcb8
.() at 0x1004a344
.() at 0x100536f0
.() at 0x1002ff98
perl_call_handler(??, ??, ??) at 0x10113f70
perl_run_stacked_handlers(??, ??, ??) at 0x10113160
perl_handler(??) at 0x10111d38
ap_invoke_handler(0x2011f1f0) at 0x100c42bc
process_request_internal(0x2011f1f0) at 0x100f4d6c
ap_process_request(0x2011f1f0) at 0x100f648c
child_main(0x0) at 0x10002d24
make_child(0x200498e0, 0x0, 0x39363aa3) at 0x100025a0
startup_children(0x2) at 0x1000248c
standalone_main(0x4, 0x2ff228c8) at 0x10001928
main(0x4, 0x2ff228c8) at 0x100014b0


To get Embperl.so to successfully build I added "-b erok" to
LDDLFLAGS.  I also tried '-G' with similar results. Without the
modification to LDDLFLAGS I got several "unresolved symbol" errors.

I also get similar results with Embperl 1.2b9, Apache 1.3.9, and
mod_perl 1.23.

BTW, I did not personally compile my perl executable, it is straight
from a fileset on the AIX 4.3.3 CD.  I have, however, upgraded
several modules to their most recent CPAN version.  My 'perl -V'
output looks like this:

Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 5 subversion 3) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=aix, osvers=4.3.3.0, archname=aix
    uname='aix funny 3 4 000001716600 '
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', optimize='-O', gccversion=
    cppflags='-D_ALL_SOURCE -D_ANSI_C_SOURCE -D_POSIX_SOURCE -
qmaxmem=16384'
    ccflags ='-D_ALL_SOURCE -D_ANSI_C_SOURCE -D_POSIX_SOURCE -
qmaxmem=16384'
    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=8
    alignbytes=8, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='ld', ldflags ='-s'
    libpth=/lib /usr/lib /usr/ccs/lib
    libs=-lnsl -ldbm -ldl -lld -lm -lc -lcrypt -lbsd -lPW -lC_r
    libc=/lib/libc.a, so=a, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_aix.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-
bE:perl.exp'
    cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags='-bhalt:4 -bM:SRE -
bI:$(PERL_INC)/perl.exp -bE:$(B
ASEEXT).exp -b noentry -lc'


Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
  Built under aix
  Compiled at Aug 14 1999 08:59:55
  @INC:
    /usr/opt/perl5/lib/5.00503/aix
    /usr/opt/perl5/lib/5.00503
    /usr/opt/perl5/lib/site_perl/5.005/aix
    /usr/opt/perl5/lib/site_perl/5.005
    .

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Greg Estep <ge...@thinkronize.com>