Using perlbrew is it possible to do multiple installs by architecture?

Question

I would like to be able to install multiple versions of Perl but I need to have them by architecture as well.

I know that I can use perlbrew to get installs by version: 5.10.1, 5.12.3, 5.16.0, etc. I couldn't find a way to also have installs by architecture, Solaris-sparc, Solaris-x86, Linux-i686, Linux-x86_64, etc.

Doing a hand install I can do this

It's no big deal doing hand installs but perlbrew makes some things easier regarding management and such.

EDIT: As brought out the in comments I am using a common home directory NFS mounted across various platforms.

Answer 1

You can use the --as option to perlbrew install to give an install a different name (to avoid clashes with the same version), and you can pass any Configure -D, -U, or -A options to perlbrew and it will pass them through. But I also fail to see how a perl for a different arch is useful in the context of perlbrew.

Here is an example of installing 32bit perl on an actual 64bit machine using perlbrew:

perlbrew install perl-5.8.8 --as perl-5.8.8-i386-linux-thread-multi -Dcc='cc -m32' -Dplibpth='/lib64 /usr/lib64 /usr/lib/ /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/' -Darchname=i386-linux-thread-multi -Dusethreads

Flags passed to Configure through -D will vary based on environment and specific needs.