$ perl -V Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 8) configuration: Platform: osname=cygwin, osvers=1.5.21(0.15642), archname=cygwin-thread-multi uname='cygwin_nt-5.1 avenger 1.5.21(0.15642) 2006-07-30 14:21 i686 cygwin ' config_args='' hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define usethreads=define use5005threads=undef useithreads=define usemultiplicity=de fine useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef usemymalloc=y, bincompat5005=undef Compiler: cc='gcc', ccflags ='-DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -Wdecl aration-after-statement -DDEBUGGING', optimize='-O2', cppflags='-DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -Wdeclaration-af ter-statement -DDEBUGGING' ccversion='', gccversion='3.4.4 (cygming special) (gdc 0.12, using dmd 0.125 )', gccosandvers='' intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234 d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12 ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize =8 alignbytes=8, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='ld2', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib' libpth=/usr/local/lib /usr/lib /lib libs=-lgdbm -ldl -lcrypt -lgdbm_compat perllibs=-ldl -lcrypt -lgdbm_compat libc=/usr/lib/libc.a, so=dll, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.a gnulibc_version='' Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=dll, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' ' cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags=' -L/usr/local/lib' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: DEBUGGING MULTIPLICITY MYMALLOC PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT PERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILES USE_PERLIO USE_REENTRANT_API Built under cygwin Compiled at Sep 9 2006 14:16:59