http://www.nabble.com/Reading%2C-Learning%2C-Confused-to1854...
(Modules page just above "More about modules") you talk about compiling to Hipe, but it doesn't say that you ahve to ./configure it in. This seems to be a common configure:
./configure --enable-hipe --enable-smp-support --enable-threads
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