rj@goliath: perl -V Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 6 subversion 0) configuration: Platform: osname=linux, osvers=2.4.3, archname=ia64-linux uname='linux d106 2.4.3 #1 smp mon may 14 17:07:47 gmt 2001 ia64 unknown ' config_args='-ds -e -Dprefix=/usr -Di_db -Di_dbm -Di_ndbm -Di_gdbm -Doptimize=-O0' hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define use64bitint=define use64bitall=define uselongdouble=undef usesocks=undef Compiler: cc='cc', optimize='-O0', gccversion=2.96-ia64-000717 snap 001117 cppflags='-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include' ccflags ='-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64' stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=false intsize=4, longsize=8, ptrsize=8, doublesize=8 d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16 ivtype='long', ivsize=8, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8 alignbytes=8, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib' libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib libs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lc -lcrypt libc=, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-rdynamic' cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: USE_64_BIT_INT USE_64_BIT_ALL USE_LARGE_FILES Built under linux Compiled at May 22 2001 13:16:28 @INC: /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/ia64-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/ia64-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl .