GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 80535
Linking libexslt into XML::LibXSLT causes apache to segfault.
Last modified: 2009-08-15 18:40:50 UTC
If you use XML::LibXSLT (1.31) under mod_perl 1.26 / apache 1.3.23 and link in the libexslt code from any current version (1.0.16-1.0.17) into the perl module - it will cause apache to segfault on startup. No function calls to the libexslt is needed, the code just has to be linked in for the behavior to be exhibited. No useful debugging information could be gathered save the behavior goes away if you don't link in libexslt.
I can hardly debug this myself, I pointed Matt Sergeant to this but I can't garantee an answer on this, sorry it depends far too much on codebase outside my own expertize, Daniel
Got feedback from Matt, apparently he don't think it is related to AXKit or libexslt proper, I'm sorry but I don't see what else to do than closing that bug as being not GNOME related, Daniel > Matt, > > I just got a bug report > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80535 > where basically someone trying to use AXKit and linking in libexslt > has segfault at apache startup. I'm really unable to handle this, > could you or someone intimage with apache module loading could have > a look, I don't think it's got anything to do with AxKit, but with mod_perl. XML::LibXML has just undergone a major re-write, so XML::LibXSLT will require some updates around that. When I get around to doing those I'll see if there's anything obvious, but I can't promise anything for this bug. It's one of those "works fine for me" issues.
Okay, I hope it was fixed in the last releases, Daniel