Re: Can't install mod_perl

2007-07-16 Thread Colin Wetherbee
Raymond Wan wrote: I'm not an expert on this, but looked into this briefly as I was worried about the level of support. From asking around, it seems that you can install 32-bit Linux on a 64-bit machine, but of course, you lose all the benefits of the 64 bits (access to larger disks and more m

Re: Can't install mod_perl

2007-07-15 Thread Raymond Wan
Hi Octavian, Octavian Rasnita wrote: Please tell me, have you succeeded to install mod_perl under a X86_64 machine? If yes, please advice what should I do. Yes, I have, and haven't noticed any problems. I installed Debian stable (AMD64 version): http://www.debian.org/ports/amd64/ . The i

Re: Can't install mod_perl

2007-07-13 Thread Octavian Rasnita
From: "Fred Moyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Getting a good build of perl under x86_64 can be a bit tricky, when you compile perl you need to make sure that the default directories to search includes /usr/lib64. It took me a few tries to get it right, I posted my experiences here - http://use.perl.

Re: Can't install mod_perl

2007-07-13 Thread Fred Moyer
[sorry my email client dropped the list from the thread, my bad] > From: "Fred Moyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:26 am, Octavian Rasnita wrote: >>> From: "Geoffrey Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > /usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.1.0/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: >>>

Re: Can't install mod_perl

2007-07-13 Thread Octavian Rasnita
From: "Geoffrey Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.1.0/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: /usr/local/perl_588/lib/CORE/libperl.a(gv.o): relocatio n R_X86_64_32S against `a local symbol' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC the first

Re: Can't install mod_perl

2007-07-13 Thread Geoffrey Young
> /usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.1.0/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: > /usr/local/perl_588/lib/CORE/libperl.a(gv.o): relocatio > n R_X86_64_32S against `a local symbol' can not be used when making a > shared object; recompile with -fPIC the first google match for "recompile with -fPIC"

Can't install mod_perl

2007-07-13 Thread Octavian Rasnita
Hi, I am trying hard to install mod_perl under SuSE X86_64 but I cannot do it. It gives the error below on the "make" step. I have searched for this error on the net, and I found only that perl could be badly installed, or Apache. I installed perl using the /lib64 /usr/lib64 and /usr/local/li