Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 5 subversion 3) configuration: Platform: osname=aix, osvers=4.3.1.0, archname=aix uname='aix hercules 3 4 00001427e800 ' hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define usethreads=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef Compiler: cc='cc', optimize='-O', gccversion= cppflags='-D_ALL_SOURCE -D_ANSI_C_SOURCE -D_POSIX_SOURCE -qmaxmem=8192 -I/usr/local/include' ccflags ='-D_ALL_SOURCE -D_ANSI_C_SOURCE -D_POSIX_SOURCE -qmaxmem=8192 -I/usr/local/include' stdchar='unsigned char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=false intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8 d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=8 alignbytes=8, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='ld', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib' libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib /usr/ccs/lib libs=-lnsl -lgdbm -ldbm -ldl -lld -lm -lc -lcrypt -lbsd -lPW libc=, so=a, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_aix.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-bE:perl.exp' cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags='-bhalt:4 -bM:SRE -bI:$(PERL_INC)/perl.exp -bE:$(BASEEXT).exp -b noentry -lc -L/usr/local/lib' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Built under aix Compiled at Feb 4 2000 10:18:39 @INC: /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00503/aix /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00503 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/aix /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005 .