The following reply was made to PR pkg/31985; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Filip Hajny <filip%joyent.com@localhost> To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost Cc: Subject: Re: pkg/31985 ([lang/perl5] cannot build 64-bit binaries on Solaris 10 (amd64) with Sun Studio 10) Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:54:55 +0100 On 20.11.2009, at 9:45, OBATA Akio wrote: > But it is unclear on i386 and sparc, so maybe, should not to > 64bitnone, but 64bitauto in "else" part. (at least, it seems that > recent bulk build on SunOS 5.10/i386 and SunOS 5.9/sparc have no > problem) > I had no problems building a 64bit perl on Nevada (snv_89) with Sun Studio 12, but that was with 2009Q1. I can confirm with confirm with 2009Q3/HEAD in a day or so. Definitely had no issues building a 64bit Perl from 2009Q3 on a Sparc (T1000) using sunwgcc last week. So the patch is killing too many birds that are fine otherwise. -- Filip Hajny Joyent Inc.