perlembed and PERL_SYS_INIT3

[Stephen Gran]

Hi there all,

Recently we got a bug report on freeradius that is not yet confirmed,
but seems likely to be right.  The short version is that rlm_perl does
not use the recommended perl macros to set up the environment correctly,
resulting in perl_parse() hanging in a futex lock on at least hppa.  The
slightly longer version is viewable at 
http://bugs.debian.org/495073 and the bug report linked from there.

There are tentative patches in our git tree viewable at 
http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/freeradius.git;a=commitdiff;h=e651a5b660a416924ff1ba1ab6d741aecd5e399c
and
http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/freeradius.git;a=commitdiff;h=4eca65e0814d697df22b001bdd7b4d1a493a64f9
(the second one cleans up the compiler complaints the first introduced).

Thanks,
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