Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 8) configuration: Platform: osname=hpux, osvers=11.23, archname=PA-RISC2.0 uname='hp-ux waves b.11.23 u 9000800 2510705975 unlimited-user license ' config_args='-A prepend:libswanted=cl pthread -d -e -Dcc=gcc -Dprefix=/usr/local useposix=true' 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='gcc', ccflags ='-D_HPUX_SOURCE -mpa-risc-2-0 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -Wdeclaration-after-statement -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE', optimize='-O0', cppflags='-D_HPUX_SOURCE -D_HPUX_SOURCE -mpa-risc-2-0 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -Wdeclaration-after-statement -I/usr/local/include' ccversion='', gccversion='4.1.1', gccosandvers='' 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=4 alignbytes=8, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='/usr/bin/ld', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib -L/opt/local/lib' libpth=/usr/local/lib /opt/local/lib /lib /usr/lib /usr/ccs/lib libs=-lcl -lpthread -lnsl -lnm -lndbm -lgdbm -ldb -lmalloc -ldld -lm perllibs=-lcl -lpthread -lnsl -lnm -lmalloc -ldld -lm libc=/lib/libc.sl, so=sl, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a gnulibc_version='' Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_hpux.xs, dlext=sl, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-Wl,-E -Wl,-B,deferred ' cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-b -L/usr/local/lib -L/opt/local/lib' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: PERL_MALLOC_WRAP USE_LARGE_FILES USE_PERLIO Built under hpux Compiled at Sep 19 2006 17:04:15 @INC: /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/PA-RISC2.0 /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/PA-RISC2.0 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl .