[OpenIndiana-discuss] /hipster perl question

[Alexander Pyhalov]

On 02/16/18 04:25 PM, Predrag Zečević - Technical Support Analyst wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I found this one accidentally:
> 
> $ file /usr/perl5/5.22/bin/perl5.22.4 /usr/perl5/5.24/bin/perl5.24.3
> /usr/perl5/5.22/bin/perl5.22.4: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, 
> version 1, dynamically linked, interpreter /usr/lib/ld.so.1, not stripped
> /usr/perl5/5.24/bin/perl5.24.3: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, 
> version 1, dynamically linked, interpreter /usr/lib/amd64/ld.so.1, not 
> stripped
> 
> Just for curiosity: why is 5.22 32bit and 5.24 64bit only?
> 
> Or, will be 5.22 compiled as 64bit or just abandoned (replaced by 5.24)?
> What are plans?

Hi. It's not easy to use one version of perl compiled as 32-bit and 
64-bit (because we have no easy way of splitting perl modules), but we 
needed both 32-bit perl and 64-bit perl, so one version is 32-bit and 
newer is 64-bit. Later we'll likely deliver only 64-bit perl version.
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Best regards,
Alexander Pyhalov,
system administrator of Southern Federal University IT department