This may be out of scope, but if anyone has the answer, please enlighten me.

I am in a bit of a conundrum. Most of my client machines I am developing for are 32 bit machines running RHEL3. For some other software I have to develop against, I had to install RHEL4 on my machine in 64 bit. This installed the 64 bit perl via the rpm and of course now numerous other packages installed are dependent on it.

I still need to do development and testing of perl apps for the 32 bit machines untill the roll forward to 64 bit a year or so from now. I tried installing the perl i386 rpm, and although that 'worked' (as in didn't fail), it didn't install the 32 bit perl binary (did create directories for the default perl packages, etc.). I know I can roll my own 32 bit perl package in /opt or something, but I'm leaning against that since the company generally wants everything installed by rpm that can be (who can blame them). The RHEL4 i386 perl package is not relocatable, so that didn't work either.

Any ideas?

In reply to 64/32 bit perl by former33t

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