I am running on 64-bit Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.

I would like to set up some clean test environments in perlbrew, but I am finding that some modules will not build in cpanm or cpan because some key libraries like libm and libxml2 are located in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu and /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/ instead of /usr/lib and /usr/include.

What is the best way to handle this?

Should I just install the 32bit libraries?

Is there a way to configure cpan and/or cpanm and/or Makefile.PL to search the 64bit paths as well as the 32bit paths?

Is there another option that I have not thought of?

(Are the packages that ubuntu has available for installation for things like XML::LibXML 32bit or 64bit? Is there an easy way to find out?)

In reply to perlbrew/cpanm on 64 bit Ubuntu by emgrasso

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