11 ~>perl -V Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 4) configuration: Platform: osname=darwin, osvers=7.3.0, archname=darwin-2level uname='darwin noras-computer.local 7.3.0 darwin kernel version 7.3.0: fri mar 5 14:22:55 pst 2004; root:xnuxnu-517.3.15.obj~4release_ppc power macintosh powerpc ' config_args='-des -Dprefix=/opt/local -Dccflags=-I'/opt/local/include' -Dldflags=-L/opt/local/lib -Dvendorprefix=/opt/local' 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=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef Compiler: cc='cc', ccflags ='-I/opt/local/include -pipe -fno-common -DPERL_DARWIN -no-cpp-precomp -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -I/opt/local/include', optimize='-Os', cppflags='-no-cpp-precomp -I/opt/local/include -pipe -fno-common -DPERL_DARWIN -no-cpp-precomp -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -I/opt/local/include' ccversion='', gccversion='3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1495)', gccosandvers='' intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=4321 d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=8 ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8 alignbytes=8, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='env MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.3 cc', ldflags ='-L/opt/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib' libpth=/usr/local/lib /opt/local/lib /usr/lib libs=-lgdbm -ldbm -ldl -lm -lc perllibs=-ldl -lm -lc libc=/usr/lib/libc.dylib, so=dylib, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a gnulibc_version='' Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_dyld.xs, dlext=bundle, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' ' cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags='-L/opt/local/lib -bundle -undefined dynamic_lookup -L/usr/local/lib' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: USE_LARGE_FILES Built under darwin Compiled at Jun 24 2004 19:12:14 %ENV: PERL5LIB="/opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.2/" @INC: /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.2/ /opt/local/lib/perl5/5.8.4/darwin-2level /opt/local/lib/perl5/5.8.4 /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4/darwin-2level /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4 /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl /opt/local/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.4/darwin-2level /opt/local/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.4 /opt/local/lib/perl5/vendor_perl .