Created attachment 59803 [details]
/var/log/apache2/error_log

There is an error in the here document in apache2-mod_perl.spec, which
creates the startup file. In the line
  if ( ! $ENV{MOD_PERL}) { die "GATEWAY_INTERFACE not Perl!"; }
the dollar sign is not quoted.

Now, for some reason, this no longer evaluates to "" in STABLE, but
rather to "/etc/bash.bashrc" instead.
Werner, do you have any idea what causes (independently of this bug here)
that change? Is that a bug?

The diff of the old startup file and the one in STABLE is:

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
   # Taken from http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/user/handlers/server.html#Startup_File
 
-  if ( ! {MOD_PERL}) { die "GATEWAY_INTERFACE not Perl!"; }
+  if ( ! /etc/bash.bashrc{MOD_PERL}) { die "GATEWAY_INTERFACE not Perl!"; }
 
   use lib qw(/srv/www/perl-lib);
 

Werner, if you have no idea, or don't see a reason to investigate,
feel free to close the bug. The wrong startup file has been fixed
already.

Status of the bug?

I would have liked a comment from Werner on the shell issue, but anyway
the issue is fixed, and I close the bug.