$ perl -V Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 6 subversion 1) configuration: Platform: osname=solaris, osvers=2.6, archname=sun4-solaris-thread-multi uname='sunos sparky 5.6 generic_105181-35 sun4u sparc sunw,ultra-5_10 ' config_args='-des -Dcc=gcc -Dcf_by=ActiveState -Dcf_email=ActivePerl@ActiveState.com -Uinstallusrbinperl -Ud_sigsetjmp -Dusethreads -Duseithreads -Ulocincpth= -Uloclibpth= -Dprefix=/usr/local/ActivePerl-5.6 -Dinc_version_list=5.6.0/$archname 5.6.0' hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define usethreads=define use5005threads=undef useithreads=define usemultiplicity=define useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef Compiler: cc='gcc', ccflags ='-DUSE_REENTRANT_API -D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS -D_REENTRANT -fno-strict-aliasing -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64', optimize='-O', cppflags='-DUSE_REENTRANT_API -D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS -D_REENTRANT -fno-strict-aliasing' ccversion='', gccversion='2.95.2 19991024 (release)', gccosandvers='solaris2.6' intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=4321 d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16 ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8 alignbytes=8, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='gcc', ldflags =' ' libpth=/usr/lib /usr/ccs/lib /usr/local/lib libs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lposix4 -lpthread -lc perllibs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lposix4 -lpthread -lc 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): Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILES PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT Locally applied patches: ActivePerl Build 638 Built under solaris Compiled at Apr 13 2004 17:52:47 @INC: /usr/local/ActivePerl-5.6/lib/5.6.1/sun4-solaris-thread-multi /usr/local/ActivePerl-5.6/lib/5.6.1 /usr/local/ActivePerl-5.6/lib/site_perl/5.6.1/sun4-solaris-thread-multi /usr/local/ActivePerl-5.6/lib/site_perl/5.6.1 /usr/local/ActivePerl-5.6/lib/site_perl . $