install failure on clean x86_64 FC3

[Julian Field]

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The command you actually need is
rpm -q --queryformat='%{ARCH}' perl
which is what the install.sh script does to work out the architecture.
I installed it earlier this week on a dual-Opteron running RHEL AS4 and
installed fine, so something odd is happening in FC3 that doesn't in AS4.

Julian Field wrote:

> What is the architecture of your copy of Perl (as given in the
> information that "rpm -qi perl" produces)?
> That is where I get the architecture name from. `arch` doesn't actually
> produce the info I need :-(
>
> Dan Hollis wrote:
>
>> I tried both 4.39.6 and 4.40.2-1, same results.
>>
>> install.sh says stuff like:
>> "I think your system will build architecture-dependent modules for
>> i386x86_64"
>>
>> Obviously, i386x86_64 is wrong...
>>
>> The installer fails with things like:
>>
>> Missing file
>> /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386x86_64/MailScanner-perl-MIME-Base64-3.05-5.i386x86_64.rpm.
>>
>> Missing file
>> /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386x86_64/perl-HTML-Parser-3.45-1.i386x86_64.rpm
>> Missing file
>> /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386x86_64/perl-Compress-Zlib-1.33-2.i386x86_64.rpm
>>
>> Also, perl-Archive-Zip completely fails to build:
>>
>> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
>> /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/Archive-Zip-1.14/blib/lib/Archive/Zip.pm line 24.
>> Compilation failed in require at t/testUpdate.t line 11.
>> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at t/testUpdate.t line 11.
>> t/testUpdate........dubious
>>        Test returned status 2 (wstat 512, 0x200)
>> FAILED--5 test scripts could be run, alas--no output ever seen
>> make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 2
>> error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.42255 (%build)
>>
>> RPM build errors:
>>    Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.42255 (%build)
>>
>> -Dan
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