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On Mar 30, 2011 3:51pm, Andy Dougherty <email address hidden> wrote:
> This issue is being tracked upstream as

> I'd like to fix this upstream, but need some basic information first.

> Assuming this is a deliberate change in Ubuntu, the fix for perl-5.14
> will be

> to detect this situation in the hints/linux.sh hint file and add the

> appropriate plibpth values automatically. In order to do that, I could

> use some help:

> First: How does one reliably detect this version of Ubuntu? (Assume I

look in '/etc/issue' should be good.

> have never used Ubuntu, and don't have access to it for testing.)

I often install OSs in VMs now to get over this, if you care to see things
first hand.

Mark

> Second: Does anyone understand this new organization enough to suggest
> how to coax

> the necessary directory name (eg /lib/i386-linux-gnu) out of the build

> tools? (For example, what should it be on an amd64 system? How about

> PPC? SPARC? Are there trailing 32s or 64s on any of those names? etc.)

> Thank you.

> Andy Dougherty <email address hidden>

> ** Bug watch added: rt.perl.org/rt3/ #86854

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> Configure does not find libs in /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu

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