diff -Nurd -x'*~' CPAN-SQLite-0.203.orig/lib/CPAN/SQLite/META.pm CPAN-SQLite-0.203/lib/CPAN/SQLite/META.pm
--- CPAN-SQLite-0.203.orig/lib/CPAN/SQLite/META.pm	2013-06-29 16:15:33.000000000 -0400
+++ CPAN-SQLite-0.203/lib/CPAN/SQLite/META.pm	2014-01-07 12:59:51.000000000 -0500
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 require CPAN::SQLite;
 use DBI;
 use File::Spec;
+use Config;
 
 use parent 'Exporter';
 our @EXPORT_OK;
@@ -315,7 +316,21 @@
     $CPAN::FrontEnd->mywarn('Database locked - cannot update.');
     return;
   }
-  my @args = ($^X, '-MCPAN::SQLite::META=setup,update,check', '-e');
+  my @args;
+  if ($] >= 5.010 && $Config{"byteorder"} =~ /^1/) {
+      # little-endian means intel (not powerpc), for which fink has
+      # multiple single-arch distros that are seen by a single (fat)
+      # perl interp from apple for a perl version supported by fink
+      # (i.e., starting with 5.10.0). This is the logic taken from
+      # Fink::PkgVersion as of fink-0.29.13.
+      push @args, '/usr/bin/arch';
+      if ( $Config{"longsize"} == 4 ) {
+	  push @args, '-i386';   # 32-bit
+      } else {
+	  push @args, '-x86_64'; # 64-bit
+      }
+  }
+  push @args, ($^X, '-MCPAN::SQLite::META=setup,update', '-e');
   if (-e $db && -s _) {
     my $mtime_db = (stat(_))[9];
     my $time_string = gmtime_string($mtime_db);
diff -Nurd -x'*~' CPAN-SQLite-0.203.orig/t/00compile.t CPAN-SQLite-0.203/t/00compile.t
--- CPAN-SQLite-0.203.orig/t/00compile.t	2012-03-24 23:18:24.000000000 -0400
+++ CPAN-SQLite-0.203/t/00compile.t	2014-01-07 12:59:13.000000000 -0500
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 use Test::More;
 use File::Find;
 use File::Temp qw{ tempdir };
+use Config;
 
 my @modules;
 find(
@@ -30,7 +31,21 @@
     # fake home for cpan-testers
     # no fake requested ## local $ENV{HOME} = tempdir( CLEANUP => 1 );
 
-    like( qx{ $^X -Ilib -e "require $_; print '$_ ok'" }, qr/^\s*$_ ok/s, "$_ loaded ok" )
+    my @command;
+    if ($] >= 5.010 && $Config{"byteorder"} =~ /^1/) {
+        # little-endian means intel (not powerpc), for which fink has
+        # multiple single-arch distros that are seen by a single (fat)
+        # perl interp from apple for a perl version supported by fink
+        # (i.e., starting with 5.10.0). This is the logic taken from
+        # Fink::PkgVersion as of fink-0.29.13.
+        push @command, '/usr/bin/arch';
+        if ( $Config{"longsize"} == 4 ) {
+            push @command, '-i386';   # 32-bit
+        } else {
+            push @command, '-x86_64'; # 64-bit
+        }
+    }
+    like( qx{ @command $^X -Ilib -e "require $_; print '$_ ok'" }, qr/^\s*$_ ok/s, "$_ loaded ok" )
         for sort @modules;
 
     SKIP: {