Apache, Perl and SuSE 8.2

External Since: Oct 16, 2004 Posts: 7

Hi

I have Apache 1.3.27 installed via SuSE 8.2.
When I installed it v 5.8.0 of Perl was also installed along with mod_perl
1.27 and a few other modules.

As this was done at install time via YaST2 no parameters were modified by me.

I have since installed Perl v5.8.5

While playing around with Apache configs I noticed that my Apache v1.3.27 uses
@INC which has in it 5.8.0 paths.

I then checked under rpm and that returned 5.8.0 as the Perl version
installed. I took it out under rpm (forced -e option) but couldn't get past
LoadModule /usr/lib/apache/libperl.so in /etc/httpd/suse_loadmodule.conf when
i tried to restart Apache. Despite the fact that /usr/lib/apache/libperl.so
was there.

So I tried to re-install Apache from YaST2 in the hope that it might recognise
that Perl v5.8.5 was on the system, but this install was pre-requisite on Perl
v5.8.0.

The question is : how do I control what version of Perl my Apache web server
is using?

Regards

Lesley

/usr/bin/perl -V
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 5) configuration:
Platform:
osname=linux, osvers=2.4.20-4gb, archname=i686-linux
uname='linux linux 2.4.20-4gb #1 mon jun 28 16:21:04 utc 2004 i686 unknown unknown gnulinux '
config_args='-de'
hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=undef
useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
Compiler:
cc='cc', ccflags ='-fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64',
optimize='-O2',
cppflags='-fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include'
ccversion='', gccversion='3.3 20030226 (prerelease) (SuSE Linux)', gccosandvers=''
intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
alignbytes=4, prototype=define
Linker and Libraries:
ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
libs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc
perllibs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc
libc=, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
gnulibc_version='2.3.2'
Dynamic Linking:
dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-Wl,-E'
cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib'

Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
Compile-time options: USE_LARGE_FILES
Built under linux
Compiled at Aug 4 2004 17:06:17
@INC:
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i686-linux
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.5
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/i686-linux
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl

External Since: Nov 03, 2003 Posts: 2907

On 2004-10-24, lesley_b_linux.TakeThisOut@yahoo.co.yuk <lesley_b_linux.TakeThisOut@yahoo.co.yuk> wrote:
> The question is : how do I control what version of Perl my Apache
> web server is using?

I think it's defined at compile time in mod_perl itself. So you
need to recompile mod_perl with the new version of perl.

Davide

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