LPM: Apache::ePerl?

Gregg Casillo gcasillo at ket.org
Wed Jul 17 18:01:55 CDT 2002


I recently put together an Apache/mod_perl box for a project/website 
we're taking up, and I'm trying to build ePerl from source with no luck. 
Before you ask, the original developers used ePerl, and this project has 
grown over the course of five plus years. My preference is Embperl with 
or without some smattering of Text::Template, but there are hundreds of 
.iphtml files in this web site's document tree that depend heavily on 
the Apache::ePerl module.

Here's where I'm at. I have Perl 5.6.1, Apache 1.3.26, and mod_perl 1.27 
built and installed from source tarballs. No problem there. However, the 
latest tarball for ePerl, eperl-2.2.14.tar.gz, won't compile on my Linux 
box. First, I had to tweak the configure file for it, because its 
looking for a 5.00x version of Perl, and I guess 5.6.1 gives a slightly 
different output from "perl -v" than does 5.003 for example. So I got 
past the "perl Makefile.PL" step. However, I get an ugly compiler error 
after typing "make".

In short, ePerl appears to be quite deprecated--the latest release dates 
back to 1998--and is not written with current versions of Perl, 
mod_perl, or even gcc in mind. But I'm pretty dependent on using 
Apache::ePerl to get this project off and running. I'm guessing I'm 
going to have to build a Linux box with older releases (I'm running on 
Red Hat 7.3 currently).

Before I do that, I wanted to know if anybody's used ePerl, built it 
lately with recent releases of Perl, Apache, etc., and/or could offer 
some suggestions on working with or around it.

Happy Pungenday,
Gregg




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