"I apologize for not following netiquette"

And still you ignore the post formatting advie which is clearly shown each time you do so.

" I am a systems admin tasked to do this. anyway, scrolling upwards in my putty session, I see this message:"

Consider employing one of the many techniques for storing what's happening. This is fairly basic sysadmin behaviour.

perl Makefile.PL MP_APXS=/apps/apache/prefork/bin/apxs

[download]

Unless you've done something you're not telling us, this will call your system perl, not the perl you just built into /usr/perl5/5.18.0. If this is not the case you're wasting our time and yours by not providing sufficient detail help resolve your issue.

"they recommend using the same compiler."

True, you should use the same compiler for both.

"I do not need the -m64 flag, it is for gcc, I am, as mentioned before using Sun's solarisstudio compiler"

You mentioned you had tried and failed with both gcc and sun compilers. I linked to documentation which still may be pertinent as it covers Sun studio on UltraSparc. Since you don't tell us which architecture you're on we can only point out potential issues.

In reply to Re^3: Error building mod perl on 64 bit perl solaris 10 by marto
in thread Error building mod perl on 64 bit perl solaris 10 by kartikvash_perl

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