We have a Perl module, ICS.pm, that uses functions from an included 32bit library, libics2.a, and we're trying to get this to run on 64bit SuSE 10.3 (Perl 5.8.8). The library is proprietary. We can't get source code for it. We can't get a 64bit build of it. readelf reports that it is indeed 32bit. So, "make test" fails with "skipping incompatible library".

We tried installing SuSE's perl-32bit package. It didn't help. That package is installed, but I have seen nothing. "whereis perl" finds only the 64bit version, perl -v reports that it is the 64bit version. There is no "i586" directory under /usr/lib/perl5/, just the x86_64 ones. Is there some "perl32" binary somewhere? Maybe uninstall 64bit perl to see it?

We tried building it on a 32bit system and copying it over. Haven't gotten that to work yet either. Any other ideas?

In reply to 32bit lib on 64bit system by bkchapin

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