Do you know the exact $Config{archname} for sparc and powerpc, then I will only 
enable this for these architectures

Gerald

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Florian Schlichting [mailto:fschl...@zedat.fu-berlin.de]
> Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2012 9:53 PM
> To: Gerald Richter - ECOS; embperl@perl.apache.org
> Subject: build failures on arm, mips: -m32 not available
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm forwarding Debian bug http://bugs.debian.org/691032 - Embperl 2.5.0
> RC2 fails to build on armel/armhf, mips/mipsel, s390 due to -m32 not being
> available on those platforms as a valid gcc flag.
> 
> The use of -m32 in Makefile.PL was introduced in Embperl 2.4.0 along with
> $perl32bit, to have Embperl compile as a 32 bit application on a 64 bit system
> if Perl itself was compiled as a 32 bit application. The patch used in Debian 
> (as
> referenced in the Debian bug) simply removes both uses of -m32; but then
> Debian doesn't compile Perl as a 32bit application on 64 bit architectures.
> Perhaps everybody would be happy if something like $Config{archname} =~
> /x86_64/ was checked in addition to $Config{ptrsize} == 4 for $perl32bit to be
> set? (but note that in addition to i386/amd64, also sparc and powerpc
> architectures support
> -m32...)
> 
> Florian
> 
> 
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