Patch to set perl_destruct_level to -1 no longer appears required. Tested with
perl 5.8.2 on i386. Typical problems used to include failed restarts via SIGHUP
which have now gone away.
This may only cover up a symptom of an underlying problem with perl
5.6.1 so currently mod_perl should be used with caution until we
find the real bug - probably in the perl sources
found by Pavel Kovorin <pvk@tsinet.ru>
- integrate COMMENT, bump NEED_VERSION
- dont rm some directories that are used by other CPAN modules
- build without LARGEFILE support, since in-tree Apache does not include it
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Tested on i386 (by Pavel), SPARC (by me). Needs testing on m68k-based
systems.
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