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Description of problem:
When attempting to view a page via httpd/mod_perl, the browser gets 
back an "Internal Server Error", and the httpd logs report that it
can't load some of the Apache mod_perl files. An strace of httpd while
serving the request seems to indicate that the include paths that 
mod_perl uses to find perl modules are garbled (i.e. there appears to
be a "-L" prepended to many of the paths). 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
mod_perl-1.99_09-10

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add the following to the end of /etc/httpd/conf.d/perl.conf

Alias /perl /var/www/perl
<Directory /var/www/perl>
  Allow from All
  AllowOverride All
  Order allow,deny
  Options +ExecCGI

  SetHandler perl-script
  PerlHandler Apache::Registry
  PerlSendHeader On
</Directory>

2. Create the directory /var/www/perl
3. Place the following in /var/www/perl/index.pl

my $r = Apache->request;
 $r->content_type("text/html");
 $r->send_http_header;
 $r->print("Hi There!");

4. Attempt to view http://host/perl/index.pl
    

Actual Results:  Internal Server Error

Expected Results:  Page should have been displayed

Additional info:

The following information appears in /var/log/httpd/error_log:

[Mon Jan 19 15:02:19 2004] [error] [client 10.8.11.61] Can't locate
Apache/Registry.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.1/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.1
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.1/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.1
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.1/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.1
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.1/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.1 .
/etc/httpd/ /etc/httpd/lib/perl) at (eval 1) line 3.

An strace of httpd while running shows the following sequence when
looking for Apache/Constants.pm:

5340  17:57:07
stat64("-L/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.1/i386-linux-thread-multi"
, 0x8b4be30) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
5340  17:57:07
stat64("-L/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.1/i386-linux-thread-multi"
, 0x8b4be30) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
...

which would appear to imply that somehow mod_perl's list of include
directories somehow got scrambled.