$ perl -V Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 6 subversion 0) configuration: Platform: osname=linux, osvers=2.4.3-pre4, archname=i686-linux uname='' config_args='-des -O -f config-defaults.sh -Dprefix=/usr -Darchname=ppc_405-linux -Dd_dosuid -Dd_semctl_semun -Di_db -Ui_ndbm -Ui_gdbm -Dgnulibc -Dnm=ppc_405-nm -Dar=ppc_405-ar -Duselargefiles=undef -Dld=ppc_405-ld -Dcf_email=source@mvista.com -Dperladmin=source@mvista.com -Dcppflags= -Dlibswanted=sfio socket bind inet nsl nm dbm db malloc dl -Dlibs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lc -lcrypt -Dknowitall -Dcharsize=1 -Dd_fsetpos -Dcryptlib=-lcrypt -lm -Dinstallprefix=/var/tmp/hhl-target-perl-ppc_405-root/opt/hardhat/devkit/ppc/405/target/usr -Dfull_ar=/opt/hardhat/devkit/ppc/405/bin/ppc_405-ar -Dman3dir=/usr/share/man/man3 -Dcc=ppc_405-gcc -Dld=ppc_405-ld -Dman1dir=/usr/share/man/man1 -Dintsize=4 -Dlongsize=4 -Dshortsize=2 -Dlonglongsize=8 -Dlongdblsize= -Dptrsize=4 -Dlseeksize=4 -Dfpossize=12 -Dextensions=B Data/Dumper Fcntl IO IPC/SysV Opcode SDBM_File Socket attrs re Errno' hint=previous, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=undef use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef usesocks=undef Compiler: cc='ppc_405-gcc', optimize='-O2', gccversion= cppflags='-fno-strict-aliasing' ccflags ='-fno-strict-aliasing' stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=false intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8 d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12 ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=4 alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='ppc_405-ld', ldflags =' ' libpth=/lib /usr/lib libs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lc -lcrypt libc=/lib/libc-2.2.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-rdynamic' cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-shared ' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: Built under linux Compiled at Jul 16 2001 18:25:42 @INC: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/405-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/405-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0 /usr/local/lib/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/ .