FYI, it turns out that for some odd reason, the system had a 32-bit ld installed. I took the 64-bit binutils RPM from the RHEL3 U3 media and forced installation of the package. With a 64-bit linker, my problem was solved.
Regards On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 16:59:51 -0800, Olive Addict <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello. > > I am running into a problem with Perl on our 64 bit architecture. The > system's CPUs are AMD Opterons, the OS is RHEL3-U3, and Perl 5.8.0 is > installed from the bundled RedHat RPM. Attempts to install > Bundle::CPAN from the cpan shell is resulting in ld errors when the > system tries to compile Data::Dumper and Term:ReadKey. The error is: > > /usr/bin/ld: unrecognised emulation mode: elf_x86_64 > Supported emulations: elf_i386 i386linux > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > > I get the same error if I attempt to compile Perl 5.8.6 from source. > Any help or shove in the right direction is greatly appreciated. > > Also--side note--I tried searching the archives for this list, but > there was an HTDIG error on > http://www.mail-archive.com/perl-64bit@perl.org/. The error was: > "Unable to read document database file Did you run htmerge?" > > -- > OliveAddict >
