diff -Nur --exclude=vmware-install.pl vmware-rcli-distrib.orig/external_bin/vmware-uninstall-rcli.pl vmware-rcli-distrib/external_bin/vmware-uninstall-rcli.pl
--- vmware-rcli-distrib.orig/external_bin/vmware-uninstall-rcli.pl	2008-07-13 00:10:07.000000000 -0400
+++ vmware-rcli-distrib/external_bin/vmware-uninstall-rcli.pl	2008-11-22 16:05:26.000000000 -0500
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
 # the bit-itude of our platform.  If we're running on Solaris we don't have
 # to guess and can just ask isainfo(1) how many bits userland is directly.
 sub is64BitUserLand {
+  return 0;
   if (vmware_product() eq 'tools-for-solaris') {
     if (direct_command(shell_string($gHelper{'isainfo'}) . ' -b') =~ /64/) {
       return 1;
@@ -2953,6 +2954,7 @@
   if (! $? eq 0) {
      error("Unable to extract VIPerl installation.\n\n");
   }
+  `patch -p0 < vmware-viperl-distrib.diff`;
 
   $rootdir = $gOption{'prefix'} ||
              internal_dirname(spacechk_answer('In which directory do you want to install ' .
diff -Nur --exclude=vmware-install.pl vmware-rcli-distrib.orig/vmware-viperl-distrib.diff vmware-rcli-distrib/vmware-viperl-distrib.diff
--- vmware-rcli-distrib.orig/vmware-viperl-distrib.diff	1969-12-31 19:00:00.000000000 -0500
+++ vmware-rcli-distrib/vmware-viperl-distrib.diff	2008-11-22 15:50:19.000000000 -0500
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+diff -Nur --exclude=vmware-install.pl vmware-viperl-distrib.orig/bin/vmware-uninstall-viperl.pl vmware-viperl-distrib/bin/vmware-uninstall-viperl.pl
+--- vmware-viperl-distrib.orig/bin/vmware-uninstall-viperl.pl	2008-07-12 23:39:51.000000000 -0400
++++ vmware-viperl-distrib/bin/vmware-uninstall-viperl.pl	2008-11-22 15:49:01.000000000 -0500
+@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
+ # the bit-itude of our platform.  If we're running on Solaris we don't have
+ # to guess and can just ask isainfo(1) how many bits userland is directly.
+ sub is64BitUserLand {
++  return 0;
+   if (vmware_product() eq 'tools-for-solaris') {
+     if (direct_command(shell_string($gHelper{'isainfo'}) . ' -b') =~ /64/) {
+       return 1;