apache/ap-python core on NetBSD/i386 3.0_STABLE

[Gary Duzan <gary%duzan.org@localhost>]

   Since upgrading apache to 1.3.36 httpd cores on startup when
mod_python is configured; otherwise it comes up fine. The backtrace
is always:

#0  0xbdb150fb in kill () from /usr/lib/libc.so.12
#1  0xbdb1705b in __libc_mutex_unlock () from /usr/lib/libc.so.12
#2  0xbdb94261 in __flockfile_internal () from /usr/lib/libc.so.12
#3  0xbdb6daa7 in fgets () from /usr/lib/libc.so.12
#4  0x08083e73 in ap_cfg_getline ()
#5  0x08072baf in ap_srm_command_loop ()
#6  0x08073121 in ap_process_resource_config ()
#7  0x0807380b in ap_read_config ()
#8  0x0807c075 in main ()
#9  0x08050386 in ___start ()

   I've tried rebuilding apache, rebuilding all the modules (I'm
also running ap-php5 and ap-ssl), disabling php5, updating to the
latest 3.0 branch code, rebuilding python23, updating ap-python to
2.7.11 (just changing version and distinfo; it builds fine), and
even building ap-python against python24, but it always does exactly
the same thing.

   Any ideas what to try next? Thanks.

                                        Gary Duzan


p.s. I tried recreating the problem on a NetBSD/amd64-current box, but
     the build breaks:

/usr/pkg/sbin/apxs 
-I/usr2/pkgsrc-work/www/ap-python/work.x86_64/mod_python-2.7.11/src/include 
-I/usr/pkg/include/httpd -I/usr/pkg/include/python2.3 -c mod_python.o  
_apachemodule.o  requestobject.o  tableobject.o  util.o  serverobject.o  
connobject.o -lm  /usr/pkg/lib/python2.3/config/libpython2.3.a   -lpthread  
-lutil   -lm
ld -shared -o mod_python.so mod_python.o _apachemodule.o requestobject.o 
tableobject.o util.o serverobject.o connobject.o -lm 
/usr/pkg/lib/python2.3/config/libpython2.3.a -lpthread -lutil -lm 
/usr/bin/ld: mod_python.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `a local symbol' can 
not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
mod_python.o: could not read symbols: Bad value
apxs:Break: Command failed with rc=1
*** Error code 1

     If I manually build with CC="apxs -c" it links, but still crashes,
     and I don't get a backtrace.