CPAN conflict issue - CGI.pm vs ModPerl::Registry

CPAN conflict issue - CGI.pm vs ModPerl::Registry

am 25.09.2006 18:42:27 von gabkin

Recently, I installed ModPerl::Registry on a Fedora Core Server, as
regular ModPerl didn't want to install, due to some janky Fedora Core
reason.
I wrote some CGI scripts, and all was well. Peace reigned, and my perl
scripts ran happily in the meadows, alongside unicorns and fairies.

Then, one day, for some foolish reason, I went to install CGI.pm on a
friday evening. The install went well, and I went home.
On monday morning, when I went to run some CGI scripts, they had
broken! (oh noes!)
A close inspection (or a `tail -1 /var/log/httpd/error_log` , actually)
revealed the following...


Can't locate Apache.pm in @INC (@INC contains: ...


Now, I have no idea why installing CGI.pm has broken my scripts. Is
there a way of uninstalling a module, and, more importantly, would that
be likely to fix it?

My first thought upon looking at the error_log error, was to install
Apache.pm, but that only results in the following error during 'make
test'...


/httpd -f `pwd`/t/conf/httpd.conf -X -d `pwd`/t &
/bin/sh: /httpd: No such file or directory
httpd listening on port 8529
will write error_log to: t/logs/error_log
letting apache warm up...\c
done
/usr/bin/perl t/TEST 0
still waiting for server to warm up...............not ok
server failed to start! (please examine t/logs/error_log) at t/TEST
line 95.
make: *** [run_tests] Error 111
/usr/bin/make test -- NOT OK
Running make install
make test had returned bad status, won't install without force


Is 'httpd' a utility I need to install in order to install Apache.pm?


Aside from CPAN, and Apache.pm failing to install (probably due to some
FC oddity), what I don't understand is how installing CGI.pm managed to
break my existing install which was using ModPerl::Registry. I mean, I
didn't change any of my code, nor did I change my httpd.conf file...

PerlModule ModPerl::Registry

SetHandler perl-script
PerlResponseHandler ModPerl::Registry
PerlOptions +ParseHeaders
#PerlOptions -GlobalRequest
Options +ExecCGI +Indexes



The only thing I can think of is CGI.pm (3.23) broke something with the
ModPerl::Registry working...

So, is there a way of uninstalling a module, and, if so, would that be
likely to repair my problem?