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Presently, Configure sets $Config::Config{byteorder} to 0xffff, which means
"I dunno" when cross-compiling, or compiling for multiple architectures. The
latter affects us, since we build perl for both i386 and ppc in Darwin, and the
result is we get this 0xffff value there, and some CPAN module puke on that,
which they probably shouldn't, but there you go.
The fix that has been suggested is to set the byteorder to this expression if
the target architecture isn't known:
join('', unpack('aaaa', pack('I', (((((52 << 8) + 51) << 8) + 50) << 8) + 49)));
This works on Darwin for both PowerPC and Intel.
Does this seem like a reasonable alternative to giving up and saying we
don't know?
-Fred
Wilfredo Sánchez, wsanchez@apple.com
Open Source Engineering Lead
Apple Computer, Inc., Core Operating System Group
1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, CA 94086, 408.974-5174
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