perl -V Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 4 subversion 4) configuration: Platform: osname=solaris, osvers=2.6, archname=sun4-solaris uname='sunos cairnpapple 5.6 generic sun4u sparc sunw,ultra-4 ' hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define bincompat3=y useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef Compiler: cc='cc', optimize='-O', gccversion=2.7.2.3 cppflags='' ccflags ='' stdchar='unsigned char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=false voidflags=15, castflags=0, d_casti32=define, d_castneg=define intsize=4, alignbytes=8, usemymalloc=y, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='cc', ldflags ='' libpth=/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='-fpic', lddlflags='-G' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Built under solaris Compiled at Dec 10 1998 12:51:04 @INC: /opt/gnu/lib/perl5/sun4-solaris/5.00404 /opt/gnu/lib/perl5 /opt/gnu/lib/perl5/site_perl/sun4-solaris /opt/gnu/lib/perl5/site_perl .