in reply to Any chance I get Bloom::Faster running on my 64bit system?

I don't know how to help, I just know that you're not alone. If you look at the cpan testers matrix, click on the linux and freebsd failures - they are all problems with 64 bit machines.

Maybe you should write a bug report.

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Re^2: Any chance I get Bloom::Faster running on my 64bit system?
by isync (Hermit) on Jun 19, 2008 at 09:40 UTC
    Already did that... Also headed over to annocpan. Bug report would be the right way- time to get a cpan account...

    Nevertheless, any further ideas how to solve this?
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      There's a similar error been reported on the perldl mailing list regarding the building of pgplot. See the thread [Perldl] Instaliing PGPLOT in ubuntu at http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/pipermail/perldl/2008-June/thread.html.

      The matter is not actually resolved there, but at least you might get some ideas about what's needed. (I think there's a number of pgplot-specific issues mentioned there that won't apply to the bloom library.) The advice seems to be that you would need to re-build the bloom library, editing the makefile to include -fPIC as an option to the compiler and linker. (With luck, that might be all you need to do.)

      Anyway ... take a look and see if there's something there that helps.

      Cheere,
      Rob
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        (...) If I need to mess with the Makefile or such, please supply steps, as I am not sure how to properly customize a cpan initiated make.

        Now, given that I need to sneak in the -fPIC flag into the cpan routine, how would I do that?

        BUT: isn't this flag already set? See:
        mkdir .libs gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -g -O2 -c bloom.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .
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