vodhner@cox.net wrote:
> Thanks to all who replied.
>
> The reason I wanted to go 64-bit on our Fujitsu sparc-alikes was that
> our sysadmins switched to 64-bit Perl as part of the standard
> package, and that broke our DBD::Pg interface. With no warning, we
> started getting a message about Pg.so, "Wrong ELF Class:
> ELFCLASS32".
>
> My assumption had been that 64-bit was the latest and greatest, so of
> course config should have found the appropriate libraries etc. and
> set me up for a 64-bit make. The answer to my question seems to be
> yes, I could cause 64-bit compilation, but it's not the obvious way
> to go.
You only need the client libraries as 64-bit for this particular problem
. Of course, if server and client are on the same machine then it's
probably simpler to have everything the same.
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Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd