hurstdog@feynman src$ perl -V Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 6 subversion 1) configuration: Platform: osname=freebsd, osvers=4.3-release, archname=i386-freebsd uname='freebsd feynman.hurstdog.org 4.3-release freebsd 4.3-release #0: sat apr 21 10:54:49 gmt 2001 jkh@narf.osd.bsdi.com:usrsrcsyscompilegeneric i386 ' config_args='' hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=unde f useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef Compiler: cc='cc', ccflags ='-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include', optimize='-O', cppflags='-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include' ccversion='', gccversion='2.95.3 [FreeBSD] 20010315 (release)', gccosandvers ='' intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234 d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12 ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize =8 alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='cc', ldflags ='-Wl,-E -L/usr/local/lib' libpth=/usr/lib /usr/local/lib libs=-lm -lc -lcrypt -lutil perllibs=-lm -lc -lcrypt -lutil libc=, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' ' cccdlflags='-DPIC -fpic', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: USE_LARGE_FILES Built under freebsd Compiled at Jun 13 2001 10:29:52 @INC: /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/i386-freebsd /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i386-freebsd /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-freebsd /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl .