vodhner@xxxxxxx 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.
-- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd
