Re: Bugs in apache & libapache-mod-perl - can they be upgraded?

["Keith G. Murphy" <keithmur@mindspring.com>]

David Huggins-Daines wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 07:38:22PM +0000, Jules Bean wrote:
> > > It seems to be well-known in the mod-perl mailing list that there is a
> > > problem (across distributions) with dynamically loaded mod-perl; many
> > > people are advised to statically link it into apache.
> >
> > Someone (DHD?) has prepared a static apache-perl package.
> 
> Yeah, I made some for local use because the memory leak on SIGHUP problem
> was driving me insane.  (apache still segfaults sometimes though, but I
> think this is a result of separate problems with POSIX.pm which I'm using in
> some modules).  If you want them they are at
> http://elgin.plcom.on.ca/debian/dists/unstable/main/
> 
> Dan Jacobowitz (libapache-mod-perl maintainer) is preparing some official
> ones that will go into potato soon.
> 
Thanks; I feel much better.  I was able to work around it by compiling
static apache-perl also, but the Debian distribution ought to have a way
to have mod-perl without compiling.  So it will.  Great.