Hi all, On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Ron Savage wrote:
> >I had trouble with some of the RPM's, so in the end I compiled > >everything from source, took a while, but it all worked the way it > >should whereas the binary distributions didn't. > > And which version of gcc are you using? I'm now using 3.2.3 for everything, although 3.3.2 is out now and that might be a better choice for new installations. My experience with gcc 3.x was mixed until 3.2.3 which I've been using with no problems at all for a very wide variety of software including mod_perl and Apache. I've built versions of mod_perl from 1.27-9 with it, maybe half a dozen times each, and both Apache 1.3.27 and 1.3.28. Be warned that building gcc (and glibc) is a time-consuming process (my record is just over 48 hours on a 166MHz 486 with 64Mb RAM:) and can be non-trivial on systems which have used only 2.9x, so if you can get a Linux distribution which has 3.2.2 already so much the better. Version 3 of gcc is much slower than version 2, but IMO a rather better compiler (==finds more mistakes in code:) now that some of the teething troubles have been fixed. You should probably rebuild your Perl if it was built with a compiler other than the one that you used to build mod_perl. Type 'perl -V' to get that information. I have had no problems using a Perl built with 3.2.2 and mod_perl built with 3.2.3 however - a minor version change like that would not be expected to cause trouble. 73, Ged.
