Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 20 subversion 2) configuration: Platform: osname=darwin, osvers=10.8.0, archname=darwin-thread-multi-2level uname='darwin neko 10.8.0 darwin kernel version 10.8.0: tue jun 7 16:33:36 pdt 2011; root:xnu-1504.15.3~1release_i386 i386 ' config_args='-ders -Dcc=gcc -Dusethreads -Duseithreads -Uinstallusrbinperl -Ulocincpth= -Uloclibpth= -Duse64bitint -Ud_poll -Ui_poll -Ui_libutil -Aldflags=-Wl,-search_paths_first -Alddlflags=-Wl,-search_paths_first -Accflags=-arch x86_64 -Aldflags=-arch x86_64 -Alddlflags=-arch x86_64 -Accflags=-DUSE_SITECUSTOMIZE -Duselargefiles -Accflags=-DPERL_RELOCATABLE_INCPUSH -Dprefix=/usr/local/ActivePerl-5.20 -Dprivlib=/usr/local/ActivePerl-5.20/lib -Darchlib=/usr/local/ActivePerl-5.20/lib -Dsiteprefix=/usr/local/ActivePerl-5.20/site -Dsitelib=/usr/local/ActivePerl-5.20/site/lib -Dsitearch=/usr/local/ActivePerl-5.20/site/lib -Dsed=/usr/bin/sed -Duseshrplib -Dcf_by=ActiveState -Dcf_email=support@ActiveState.com' hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define useithreads=define, usemultiplicity=define use64bitint=define, use64bitall=define, uselongdouble=undef usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef Compiler: cc='/usr/bin/gcc', ccflags ='-fno-common -DPERL_DARWIN -no-cpp-precomp -arch x86_64 -DUSE_SITECUSTOMIZE -DPERL_RELOCATABLE_INCPUSH -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector', optimize='-O3', cppflags='-no-cpp-precomp -fno-common -DPERL_DARWIN -no-cpp-precomp -arch x86_64 -DUSE_SITECUSTOMIZE -DPERL_RELOCATABLE_INCPUSH -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector' ccversion='', gccversion='Apple LLVM version 7.0.2 (clang-700.1.81)', gccosandvers='' intsize=4, longsize=8, ptrsize=8, doublesize=8, byteorder=12345678 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, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='gcc -mmacosx-version-min=10.5', ldflags =' -Wl,-search_paths_first -arch x86_64 -fstack-protector' libpth=/usr/lib libs=-ldbm -ldl -lm -lutil -lc perllibs=-ldl -lm -lutil -lc libc=, so=dylib, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.dylib gnulibc_version='' Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=bundle, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' ' cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags=' -bundle -undefined dynamic_lookup -Wl,-search_paths_first -arch x86_64 -fstack-protector' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: HAS_TIMES MULTIPLICITY PERLIO_LAYERS PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV PERL_HASH_FUNC_ONE_AT_A_TIME_HARD PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT PERL_MALLOC_WRAP PERL_NEW_COPY_ON_WRITE PERL_PRESERVE_IVUV PERL_RELOCATABLE_INCPUSH USE_64_BIT_ALL USE_64_BIT_INT USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILES USE_LOCALE USE_LOCALE_COLLATE USE_LOCALE_CTYPE USE_LOCALE_NUMERIC USE_PERLIO USE_PERL_ATOF USE_REENTRANT_API USE_SITECUSTOMIZE Locally applied patches: ActivePerl Build 2002 [299195] Built under darwin Compiled at Jul 19 2015 04:34:30 @INC: /Users/cmv/Library/ActivePerl-5.20/lib /usr/local/ActivePerl-5.20/site/lib /usr/local/ActivePerl-5.20/lib .