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Hi all,

I've recently installed Active State Perl V5.8.8 on a department machine running RedHat EL 3. RHEL 3 provides perl V5.8.0 which I can't use since it won't build/run several modules that I got from CPAN and hence I'm trying out Active State.

Here's what I have in my .bash_profile:

# add local entries to perl's @INC
#sitecustomize.pl
perl_ver=5.8.8
#perl_ver=`perl -Mstrict -wall -e "print join('.', map {ord} split('', \$^V));"`
PERL5LIB_64="/usr/local/lib64/perl5/site_perl/$perl_ver:/usr/local/lib64/perl5/$perl_ver"
PERL5LIB_32="/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/$perl_ver:/usr/local/lib/perl5/$perl_ver"
PERL5LIB=$PERL5LIB_64:$PERL5LIB_32

so that on a RHEL5 system that has perl V5.8.8:

$ perl -V
%ENV:
    PERL5LIB="/usr/local/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8:/usr/local/lib64/perl5/5.8.8:/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8:/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8"
  @INC:
    /usr/local/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8
    /usr/local/lib64/perl5/5.8.8
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8
*snip*

so you see that the arch specific dir i386-linux-thread-multi is getting included automatically in the @INC path. However, on the RHEL3 system where I've installed Active State Perl,

$ perl -V
%ENV:
    PERL5LIB="/usr/local/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8:/usr/local/lib64/perl5/5.8.8:/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8:/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8"
  @INC:
    /usr/local/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8
    /usr/local/lib64/perl5/5.8.8
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8
    /opt/ActivePerl-5.8/site/lib
    /opt/ActivePerl-5.8/lib
    .

The arch specific dir is not included!

In perl's native documentation, the arch specific dirs *should* get included automatically. Does Active State Perl not implement this functionality, or am I missing some config option?

Help much appreciated,
Ritesh