I've just been updating the test suite for

MasonX::Interp::Wit­hCallbacks and noticed that, while tests pass

perfectly with Apache 1, the server never starts up with Apache 2.

On May 2, 2008, at 19:30, David E. Wheeler wrote:

Never mind. I figured it out. I had to change this:

<Perl>

use File::Spec::Functio­ns qw(catdir);

use lib catdir '@ServerRoot@', 'lib';

use lib catdir '@ServerRoot@', '..', 'blib';

use lib catdir '@ServerRoot@', '..', 'lib';

</Perl>

To be surrounded by an IfDefine:

<IfDefine !MODPERL2>

<Perl>

use File::Spec::Functio­ns qw(catdir);

use lib catdir '@ServerRoot@', 'lib';

use lib catdir '@ServerRoot@', '..', 'blib';

use lib catdir '@ServerRoot@', '..', 'lib';

</Perl>

</IfDefine>

Not sure why there's a difference here between mod_perl 1 and mod_perl

2, but I'm happy that the solution seems to be simple. Is this something

that's documented somewhere?

MODPERL2 is documented here, although it doesn't answer the question

of why the server starts with that directive and doesn't start

without it:

Most instances of the server not starting which have not been

related to the timeout being too low were missing test skips if a

certain module wasn't present (i.e. mod_alias, etc). I know I've

fixed a few of those issues, but there may be some remaining. My

guess is that your httpd builds may not have the exact same modules

compiled in or loaded dynamically.

I don't really understand why you need that perl section at all

though, Apache::Test should be picking up those library paths

implicitly.

I'm not sure what the difference is here. Anyone know?

If you want to try it yourself, you can check out my code from svn here:

https://svn.kinetic­ode.com/MasonX-Inter­p-WithCallbacks/trun­k

I have Apache::Test 1.31 installed and am tying t run the tests against

my 2.2.8 Apache server with mod_perl 2.04 and Perl 5.10.

Tried to check it out but got the following message.

phred@harpua svn $ svn co https://svn.kinetic­ode.com/MasonX-Inter­p-WithCallbacks/trun­k

svn: REPORT request failed on '/!svn/vcc/default'­

svn: Can't open file '/var/svn/db/revpro­ps/3730': Permission denied

Can try it out here, I'm setting up a 5.10/2.2.8 test environment.