%general-entities; ]> Perl N32 sed -i -e '/^BUILD_ZLIB/s/True/False/' \ -e '/^INCLUDE/s,\./zlib-src,/usr/include,' \ -e '/^LIB/s,\./zlib-src,/usr/lib32,' \ cpan/Compress-Raw-Zlib/config.in sed -i "/libc/s@/lib@/lib32@" hints/linux.sh We still need to tell perl to actually use lib32: echo 'installstyle="lib32/perl5"' >>hints/linux.sh ./configure.gnu --prefix=/usr \ -Dvendorprefix=/usr \ -Dman1dir=/usr/share/man/man1 \ -Dman3dir=/usr/share/man/man3 \ -Dpager="/bin/less -isR" \ -Dlibpth="/usr/local/lib32 /lib32 /usr/lib32" \ -Dcc="gcc ${BUILDN32}" \ -Dusethreads -Duseshrplib -Dlibpth="/usr/local/lib32 /lib32 /usr/lib32" This tells Perl to link against the N32 libraries. mv -v /usr/bin/perl{,-n32} mv -v /usr/bin/perl&perl-version;{,-n32}