I have gotten what looks like some kind of mod_perl error. I'm not sure why mod_perl may have tacked on all of those X's to the end of the package name. My wild guess is that it has something to do with avoiding namespace collision.

#this sort of what the error looks like 


Identifier too long at (eval 425) line 1.
        eval 'package Apache::ROOTXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
+XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX::error_2em;use Apache qw(exit);sub handler 


;' called at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3/i386-freebsd/Apache/
+Registry.pm line 183
        Apache::Registry::compile('package Apache::ROOTXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
+XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX...') called at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_p
+erl/5.8.3/i386-freebsd/Apache/Registry.pm line 134
        Apache::Registry::handler('Apache=SCALAR(0xa75a3cc)') called a
+t (eval 425) line 1

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I would like to know what Caused the X's to get added. and a possible good solution? thanks

In reply to Stacking X's to the end of the package name by mmf

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