Re: make test hangs when re-installing DBI under 64-bit

On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 08:41:45AM -0600, Harry Jamieson wrote:
> Environment:
> IBM AIX 5.3.
> Perl 5.8.8 now linked to its 64-bit libraries.
> 64-bit compiled test simple 0.98
> 64-bit compiled MakeMaker 6.48.
> 
> We didn't discover that IBM had shipped our AIX with Perl pointed to
> the 32-bit version until after we had already installed DBI, and now
> that we find that we must use DB2 instead of MySQL, we are forced to
> try to re-install everything under 64-bit.  We have re-linked Perl
> to 64-bit and we were successful at re-installing test simple and
> makemaker under 64-bit.

Did you use perlbrew (http://perlbrew.pl/) or use the defaults?

Do you have to use a perl version that's over six years old?

http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=DBI%201.622;maxver=1
shows the last report for DBI from a cpan tester on AIX was for 1.609

And http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=DBI%201.609;reports=1;os=aix
shows only 1 pass and two fails, and those were for perl 5.10.1
(the pass report looks like it's for a 64-bit system).

Tim.