Apache/PHP module boot restriction?

[Joe Orton]

On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 08:22:57AM -0500, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 16:41 -0800, Andrew JH Ring wrote:
> > I've recently set up a Fedora Core 4 web server running Apache 2.2.0
> > with PHP 5.1.2.  I've managed to get Apache loading the module, after
> > setting libphp5.so to shlib_t, however Apache seems to still be unable
> > to access the module during boot.  I'm getting a Cannot load libphp5
> > cannot restore segment prot after reloc.  Is this a known problem, and
> > if so, how is it fixed?
> 
> cc'd fedora-selinux-list as well above, since you mentioned you were
> using FC4.
> 
> This usually indicates a text relocation, which is undesirable if it can
> be avoided.  The stock FC4 php doesn't appear to have any text
> relocations in its libphp (readelf -d libphp5.so.1 |  grep TEXTREL).
> Possibly it has a patch to avoid the problem.

You have to pass --with-pic to configure; upstream default builds 
non-PIC code into the DSO by default ("it's a feature!").

joe