root@server:/syshome/user/HTML-Parser-3.56=> perl -V Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 8) configuration: Platform: osname=aix, osvers=5.3.0.0, archname=aix uname='aix eagle 3 5 00c96e1d4c00 ' config_args='-Duse32bitall' hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=undef useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef Compiler: cc='xlc_r', ccflags ='-D_ALL_SOURCE -D_ANSI_C_SOURCE -D_POSIX_SOURCE -qmaxmem=-1 -qnoansialias +-DUSE_NATIVE_DLOPEN -I/usr/local/include -q32 -D_LARGE_FILES -qlonglong', optimize='-O', cppflags='-D_ALL_SOURCE -D_ANSI_C_SOURCE -D_POSIX_SOURCE -qmaxmem=-1 -qnoansialias -DUSE_NATIVE +_DLOPEN -I/usr/local/include' ccversion='8.0.0.11', gccversion='', gccosandvers='' intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=4321 d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=8 ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8 alignbytes=8, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='ld', ldflags =' -brtl -bdynamic -bmaxdata:0x80000000 -L/usr/local/lib -b32' libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib /usr/ccs/lib libs=-lbind -lnsl -ldbm -ldl -lld -lm -lcrypt -lc -lbsd perllibs=-lbind -lnsl -ldl -lld -lm -lcrypt -lc -lbsd libc=/lib/libc.a, so=a, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a gnulibc_version='' Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_aix.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' -bE:/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/aix/COR +E/perl.exp' cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags=' -bhalt:4 -bexpall -G -bnoentry -lc -L/usr/local/lib' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: PERL_MALLOC_WRAP USE_LARGE_FILES USE_PERLIO Built under aix Compiled at Mar 21 2007 16:40:22 @INC: /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/aix /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/aix /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl . root@server:/syshome/user/HTML-Parser-3.56=> root@server:/syshome/user/HTML-Parser-3.56=> perl Makefile.PL Checking if your kit is complete... Looks good Writing Makefile for HTML::Parser root@server:/syshome/user/HTML-Parser-3.56=> make cp lib/HTML/PullParser.pm blib/lib/HTML/PullParser.pm cp Parser.pm blib/lib/HTML/Parser.pm cp lib/HTML/Entities.pm blib/lib/HTML/Entities.pm cp lib/HTML/TokeParser.pm blib/lib/HTML/TokeParser.pm cp lib/HTML/LinkExtor.pm blib/lib/HTML/LinkExtor.pm cp lib/HTML/Filter.pm blib/lib/HTML/Filter.pm cp lib/HTML/HeadParser.pm blib/lib/HTML/HeadParser.pm /usr/bin/perl -e 'use ExtUtils::Mksymlists; Mksymlists("NAME" => "HTML::Parser", "DL_FUNCS +" => { }, "FUNCLIST" => [], "DL_VARS" => []);' /usr/bin/perl mkhctype >hctype.h /usr/bin/perl mkpfunc >pfunc.h /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/ExtUtils/xsubpp -typemap /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8 +.8/ExtUtils/typemap -typemap typemap Parser.xs > Parser.xsc && mv Parser.xsc Parser.c xlc_r -c -D_ALL_SOURCE -D_ANSI_C_SOURCE -D_POSIX_SOURCE -qmaxmem=-1 -qnoansialias -DUSE_ +NATIVE_DLOPEN -I/usr/local/include -q32 -D_LARGE_FILES -qlonglong -O -DVERSION=\"3.56\" -DXS_V +ERSION=\"3.56\" "-I/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/aix/CORE" -DMARKED_SECTION Parser.c Running Mkbootstrap for HTML::Parser () chmod 644 Parser.bs rm -f blib/arch/auto/HTML/Parser/Parser.so ld -bhalt:4 -bexpall -G -bnoentry -lc -L/usr/local/lib Parser.o -o blib/arch/auto/HTML/Pa +rser/Parser.so ld: 0711-738 ERROR: Input file Parser.o: XCOFF32 object files are not allowed in 64-bit mode. make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 8. Stop.