Problems installing perl module

Hi,

We are currently migrating sites off TeamSite 6.5 (Solaris) to TeamSite 7.2.1. Linux(Red Hat 64 bit)

I am having trouble installing a perl module called GD which is required by some of the TPLs. Initially I tried to install using the default commands:-
1) iwperl Makefile.PL
2) make
3) make test

However on the make test, I get the following errors:-

PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /web/soft/iw-home/TeamSite/iw-perl/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
t/GD..........Can't load './blib/arch/auto/GD/GD.so' for module GD: ./blib/arch/auto/GD/GD.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64 at /web/soft/iw-home/TeamSite/iw-perl/lib/DynaLoader.pm line 229.

If I do a #file GD.so, I get -> GD.so: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, AMD x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), not stripped

So it appears that the GD shared object is 64 bit and iwperl is 32 bit, so there is an compatibility problem here.

I then tried building the module by passing in the following during the make command

make PASTHRU='-m32' LD='cc -m32'

but I get errors related to /usr/bin/ld
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib64/libXpm.so when searching for -lXpm

and during the make test I get

PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /web/soft/iw-home/TeamSite/iw-perl/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
t/GD..........Can't load './blib/arch/auto/GD/GD.so' for module GD: ./blib/arch/auto/GD/GD.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64 at /web/soft/iw-home/TeamSite/iw-perl/lib/DynaLoader.pm line 229.

So then I checked the GNU linker(ld) and that is 64 bit version. So to compile this module would I need to have a 32 bit version of the linker (ld)?

Any help would be much appreciated?

Thanks
Mashuk

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mart2001

I have ran into problems before when trying to some Perl modules installed, but the system is 64 bit and the other is 32 bit. You can try to look for the 32 bit version of the library maybe something like /var/lib32 for those libraries and set your environment variables correctly so that it picks up the 32 bit version instead of the 64 bit version.

Mashuk

When I ran the Makefile.PL, I then proceeded to update the Makefile and remove any references to the 64 bit libraries as can be seen below


EXTRALIBS = -L/usr/lib64 -L/usr/lib64 -lXpm -lX11 -ljpeg -lfontconfig -lfreetype -lpng12 -lz -lgd
LDLOADLIBS = -L/usr/lib64 -L/usr/lib64 -lXpm -lX11 -ljpeg -lfontconfig -lfreetype -lpng12 -lz -lm -lgd
BSLOADLIBS =
LD_RUN_PATH = /usr/lib64

Changed to


EXTRALIBS = -L/usr/lib -L/usr/lib -lXpm -lX11 -ljpeg -lfontconfig -lfreetype -lpng12 -lz -lgd
LDLOADLIBS = -L/usr/lib -L/usr/lib -lXpm -lX11 -ljpeg -lfontconfig -lfreetype -lpng12 -lz -lm -lgd
BSLOADLIBS =
LD_RUN_PATH = /usr/lib

I then ran the command make PASTHRU_INC='-m32' LD='cc -m32' to run it as 32 bit, however I get the following errors


LD_RUN_PATH="/usr/lib" cc -m32  -shared -L/usr/local/lib GD.o  -o blib/arch/auto/GD/GD.so   -L/usr/lib -L/usr/lib -lXpm -lX11 -ljpeg -lfontconfig -lfreetype -lpng12 -lz -lm -lgd
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib64/libXpm.so when searching for -lXpm
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXpm
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [blib/arch/auto/GD/GD.so] Error 1

Then when I run make test, I get a lot more of these errors


rm -f blib/arch/auto/GD/GD.so
LD_RUN_PATH="/usr/lib" gcc  -shared -L/usr/local/lib GD.o  -o blib/arch/auto/GD/GD.so   -L/usr/lib -L/usr/lib -lXpm -lX11 -ljpeg -lfontconfig -lfreetype -lpng12 -lz -lm -lgd
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libX11.so when searching for -lX11
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libX11.so when searching for -lX11
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libjpeg.so when searching for -ljpeg
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libjpeg.so when searching for -ljpeg
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libfreetype.so when searching for -lfreetype
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libfreetype.so when searching for -lfreetype
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libpng12.so when searching for -lpng12
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libpng12.a when searching for -lpng12
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libpng12.so when searching for -lpng12
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libpng12.a when searching for -lpng12
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libz.so when searching for -lz
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libz.a when searching for -lz
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libz.so when searching for -lz
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libz.a when searching for -lz
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libm.so when searching for -lm
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libm.a when searching for -lm
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libm.so when searching for -lm
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libm.a when searching for -lm
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libgd.so when searching for -lgd
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libgd.a when searching for -lgd
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libgd.so when searching for -lgd
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libgd.a when searching for -lgd
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libc.so when searching for -lc
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libc.a when searching for -lc
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libc.so when searching for -lc
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libc.a when searching for -lc
/usr/bin/ld: warning: i386 architecture of input file `GD.o' is incompatible with i386:x86-64 output

Does the above incompatibility problem refer to a 32 vs 64 bit problem or some other issue?