$ perl -V Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 4 subversion 5) configuration: Platform: osname=solaris, osvers=2.5.1, archname=sun4-solaris uname='sunos betaman.portsoft.com 5.5.1 generic_103640-26 sun4u sparc sunw,' hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define bincompat3=n useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef Compiler: cc='cc', optimize='-O', gccversion= cppflags='' ccflags ='' stdchar='unsigned char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=false intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=undef, doublesize=undef alignbytes=8, usemymalloc=y, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib' libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib /usr/ccs/lib libs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lc -lcrypt libc=/lib/libc.so, so=so useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' ' cccdlflags='-Kpic', lddlflags='-G -L/usr/local/lib' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Built under solaris @INC: /usr/local/lib/perl5/sun4-solaris/5.00405 /usr/local/lib/perl5 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/sun4-solaris /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl