This is the patch that I'm currently using to get Configure.pl to ignore
-arch flags in the Perl 5 config on Darwin.
Index: config/init/defaults.pm
===================================================================
--- config/init/defaults.pm (revision 26775)
+++ config/init/defaults.pm (working copy)
@@ -72,6 +72,15 @@
# to their 'use English' names as documented in 'perlvar'.)
$conf->data->set_p5( OSNAME => $^O );
+ my $p5_ccflags = $Config{ccflags};
+ my $p5_ldflags = $Config{ldflags};
+ my $p5_lddlflags = $Config{lddlflags};
+ if ($^O eq 'darwin') {
+ $p5_ccflags =~ s/-arch (?:i386|ppc(?:64)?|x86_64)\b//g;
+ $p5_ldflags =~ s/-arch (?:i386|ppc(?:64)?|x86_64)\b//g;
+ $p5_lddlflags =~ s/-arch (?:i386|ppc(?:64)?|x86_64)\b//g;
+ }
+
# We need a Glossary somewhere!
$conf->data->set(
debugging => $conf->options->get('debugging') ? 1 : 0,
@@ -82,7 +91,7 @@
# Compiler -- used to turn .c files into object files.
# (Usually cc or cl, or something like that.)
cc => $Config{cc},
- ccflags => $Config{ccflags},
+ ccflags => $p5_ccflags,
ccwarn => exists( $Config{ccwarn} ) ? $Config{ccwarn} : '',
# Flags used to indicate this object file is to be compiled
@@ -104,7 +113,7 @@
# Perl5's Configure doesn't distinguish linking from loading, so
# make a reasonable guess at defaults.
link => $Config{cc},
- linkflags => $Config{ldflags},
+ linkflags => $p5_ldflags,
# Linker Flags to have this binary work with the shared and dynamically
# loadable libraries we're building. On HP-UX, for example, we need to
@@ -115,16 +124,16 @@
# modules. Often $cc on Unix-ish systems, but apparently sometimes
# it's ld.
ld => $Config{ld},
- ldflags => $Config{ldflags},
+ ldflags => $p5_ldflags,
# Some operating systems (e.g. Darwin) distinguish between shared
# libraries and modules that can be dynamically loaded. Flags to tell
# ld to build a shared library, e.g. -shared for GNU ld.
- ld_share_flags => $Config{lddlflags},
+ ld_share_flags => $p5_lddlflags,
# Flags to tell ld to build a dynamically loadable module, e.g.
# -shared for GNU ld.
- ld_load_flags => $Config{lddlflags},
+ ld_load_flags => $p5_lddlflags,
libs => $Config{libs},
