perl for 64-bit OS

Aliceg has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi. In my company are used a lot of perl based scripts and modules, but some of them only run on RedHat4 OS (32-bit). I've been trying to work them so as to make them work on RedHat6 (64-but) but so far no luck. Is there any protocol for this sort of issue? It's mainly about the pearl packer modules (PAR::Packer and pp). Thanks.

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Re: perl for 64-bit OS by Anonymous Monk on Mar 01, 2015 at 14:47 UTC
CPAN Testers for PAR::Packer 1.025 shows hundreds of passed tests on 64-bit platforms, and there is no general problem with Perl on 64-bit systems. Could you provide some more information please? What versions of Perl? Did you build them yourself or are they the system Perl? How are you trying to install the modules (package manager, `cpan`, built yourself, ...)? What error messages are you getting? If you think it's an issue with a script and not a module, could you provide a short example script that reproduces the problem (works on 32-bit but not on 64-bit)?	[reply] [d/l]

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Re: perl for 64-bit OS
by Anonymous Monk on Mar 01, 2015 at 14:47 UTC

CPAN Testers for PAR::Packer 1.025 shows hundreds of passed tests on 64-bit platforms, and there is no general problem with Perl on 64-bit systems. Could you provide some more information please? What versions of Perl? Did you build them yourself or are they the system Perl? How are you trying to install the modules (package manager, cpan, built yourself, ...)? What error messages are you getting? If you think it's an issue with a script and not a module, could you provide a short example script that reproduces the problem (works on 32-bit but not on 64-bit)?

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