Re: [Fink-devel] Failure of -pm5100 package selftests on 10.6/i386

[Peter O'G. <pe...@po...>]

On 07/22/2010 04:08 AM, Daniel E. Macks wrote:
>
> 2. Figure out a shell env var or other way to make sure that the
> spawned interp is run with the correct arch. At various times in
> various contexts, we use ARCHFLAGS="" (I think that only affects the
> compiling of C-code modules?). That is always fragile because we rely
> on apple not to change how it works, but avoids having to perpetuate a
> hacked perl-module package.

For the system perl 'export VERSIONER_PERL_PREFER_32_BIT=yes' should do 
this. I think fink already exports that when necessary though, doesn't it?

http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/perl.1.html

Peter