[Templates] problems preloading Template.pm under Apache/mod_perl in Mac OS X

[Tim Noll]

Stas Bekman wrote:
> a broken Exporter?
>
> does it work after you do:
>
> perl -pi -e 's/(O_CREAT|O_WRONLY|O_TRUNC)/Fcntl::$1/g'
> /Library/Perl/darwin/Template/Document.pm

OK, we tried your suggestion and fully qualified those constants on line 251
of Template/Document.pm. Now it still freezes with "PerlModule Template" in
the conf file, but trying "use Template ();" in the startup file works! But
then when he stops the web server, this appears in the Apache error log:

*** malloc[1583]: Deallocation of a pointer not malloced: 0x17d4cc; This
could be a double free(), or free() called with the middle of an allocated
block; Try setting environment variable MallocHelp to see tools to help
debug

One other thing of note: He uses the System Preferences > Sharing control
panel to start and stop Apache. He hasn't yet tried it from the command
line. Is that a possible source of this problem?


> Please stay away from perl 5.6.0 -- it's *very* buggy. use 5.6.1
> instead, which is very stable.

My colleague tried to upgrade to 5.6.1 at one point but ran into a lot of
problems due to various other dependencies. He ended up restoring the
original Perl binaries from CD. If anyone knows of a reliable way to upgrade
to 5.6.1 without trashing anything else, please share.

P.S. My colleague also noticed that that trying to preload Apache::Util
causes Apache to freeze, as well; however, no error messages appear in the
error log at all.

-Tim