> perl -V Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 6 subversion 0) configuration: Platform: osname=solaris, osvers=2.6, archname=sun4-solaris uname='sunos fluidy 5.6 generic_105181-23 sun4d sparc sunw,sparcserver-1000 ' config_args='-Dcc=gcc -Dprefix=/opt/local/gnu' hint=previous, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef usesocks=undef Compiler: cc='gcc', optimize='-O2', gccversion=2.95.2 19991024 (release) cppflags='-fno-strict-aliasing -I/opt/local/include -I/opt/local/gnu/include -I/opt/local/X11/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64' ccflags ='-fno-strict-aliasing -I/opt/local/include -I/opt/local/gnu/include -I/opt/local/X11/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64' 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=16 ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8 alignbytes=8, usemymalloc=y, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='gcc', ldflags ='-L/opt/local/lib -L/opt/local/gnu/lib -L/opt/local/X11/lib ' libpth=/usr/lib /usr/ccs/lib /opt/local/lib /opt/local/gnu/lib /opt/local/X11/lib libs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldb -ldl -lm -lc -lcrypt -lsec libc=/lib/libc.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' -Wl,-E' cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags=' -W,l-E -G -L/opt/local/lib -L/opt/local/gnu/lib -L/opt/local/X11/lib' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: USE_LARGE_FILES Built under solaris Compiled at Dec 21 2000 19:25:43