[rt-users] Trying to install/run RT with 2 Perls - Redhat Perl and self installed Perl

[Kenneth Marshall]

Perl, apache, and mod_perl all need to be built together. You
may be able to get it to work using fastcgi instead. Otherwise,
you will need to rebuild apache/mod_perl with your local version
of perl.

Good luck,
Ken

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:07:46AM -0700, John Seto wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> Scenario:
> 
> Server - 64 bit RedHat 5 Enterprise with Perl and Apache provided (no
> hand in this setup)
> 
> RT Version: 3.6.3
> Perl Version: 5.8.8
> 
> Background:
> I have successfully setup RT 3.6.3 in this environment by satisfying the
> dependencies against the system Perl (installing from CPAN). RT is
> running Apache and mod_perl.
> 
> The goal of this project is to create an RT setup that runs against a
> local Perl version installed in /opt and has its Perl dependencies
> satisfied there as well. The concern of the sys admins is that periodic
> Red Hat patches will 'break' RT and the hope is that this proposed RT
> setup will avoid against that possibility.
> Disclaimer: I'm a relative Perl noobie.
> 
> Progress:
> 
> To avoid against the possibility of polluting the system Perl libraries,
> I build Perl as non-root in /tmp and satisfy RT dependencies via CPAN
> there. This goes smoothly. I also ensure that @INC is modified at Apache
> startup to append the local Perl library paths at the front of the @INC
> array.
> I did this by having a PerlRequire startup.pl statement in the config
> file and the startup.pl containing use lib qw(paths to search).
> 
> Roadblock:
> 
> Starting apache fails. I have tried rebuilding Perl several times with
> different flags/switches off/on. The error message I always get is:
> 
> [Wed Oct 29 15:24:02 2008] [error] Can't load
> '/opt/perl/lib/5.8.8/x86_64-linux/auto/Encode/Encode.so' for module
> Encode: /opt/perl/lib/5.8.8/x86_64-linux/auto/Encode/Encode.so:
> undefined symbol: PL_curpad at
> /opt/perl/lib/5.8.8/x86_64-linux/XSLoader.pm line 70.\n at
> /opt/perl/lib/5.8.8/x86_64-linux/Encode.pm line 9\nCompilation failed in
> require at /opt/rt3/lib/RT/I18N.pm line 64.\nBEGIN failed--compilation
> aborted at /opt/rt3/lib/RT/I18N.pm line 64.\nCompilation failed in
> require at /opt/rt3/lib/RT.pm line 48.\nBEGIN failed--compilation
> aborted at /opt/rt3/lib/RT.pm line 48.\nCompilation failed in require at
> /opt/rt3/bin/webmux.pl line 66.\nBEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
> /opt/rt3/bin/webmux.pl line 66.\nCompilation failed in require at (eval
> 3) line 1.\n
> 
> Googling about PL_curpad is not helpful and I've searched the RT-user
> archive to no avail. I'm suspecting the system Perl and the local Perl
> are not getting along but I have no clue how to proceed from here. To
> reiterate, I'm a Perl noobie.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help or insights.
> 
> John
> 
> 
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