Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 8 subversion 1) configuration: Platform: osname=solaris, osvers=2.8, archname=sun4-solaris-64 uname='sunos daddel 5.8 generic_108528-16 sun4u sparc sunw,ultra-80 ' config_args='-Dcc=gcc -m64 -Dprefix=/test/tools/sparcv9/perl -des' hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=undef useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef use64bitint=define use64bitall=define uselongdouble=undef usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef Compiler: cc='gcc -m64', ccflags ='-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -mcpu=v9 -m64 -Wa,-xarch=v9 -D_LAR GEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64', optimize='-O', cppflags='-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include' ccversion='', gccversion='3.3.2', gccosandvers='solaris2' intsize=4, longsize=8, ptrsize=8, doublesize=8, byteorder=87654321 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 -m64', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib ' libpth=/usr/local/lib /usr/lib /usr/ccs/lib libs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lc perllibs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lc libc=/usr/lib/sparcv9/libc.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a gnulibc_version='' Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' -z ignore -z lazyload -z combreloc' cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags=' -G -z ignore -z lazyload -z combreloc -L/usr/local/lib'