FYI, it turns out that for some odd reason, the system had a 32-bit ld
installed.  I took the 64-bit binutils RPM from the RHEL3 U3 media and
forced installation of the package.  With a 64-bit linker, my problem
was solved.

Regards

On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 16:59:51 -0800, Olive Addict <oliveaddict@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I am running into a problem with Perl on our 64 bit architecture.  The
> system's CPUs are AMD Opterons, the OS is RHEL3-U3, and Perl 5.8.0 is
> installed from the bundled RedHat RPM.  Attempts to install
> Bundle::CPAN from the cpan shell is resulting in ld errors when the
> system tries to compile Data::Dumper and Term:ReadKey.  The error is:
> 
> /usr/bin/ld: unrecognised emulation mode: elf_x86_64
> Supported emulations: elf_i386 i386linux
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> 
> I get the same error if I attempt to compile Perl 5.8.6 from source.
> Any help or shove in the right direction is greatly appreciated.
> 
> Also--side note--I tried searching the archives for this list, but
> there was an HTDIG error on
> http://www.mail-archive.com/perl-64bit@perl.org/.  The error was:
> "Unable to read document database file Did you run htmerge?"
> 
> --
> OliveAddict
>