Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 8) configuration: Platform: osname=solaris, osvers=2.8, archname=sun4-solaris-thread-multi-64int uname='sunos thor1 5.8 generic_117350-26 sun4u sparc sunw,sun-fire-v210 ' config_args='-de -Dcc=gcc -Dmake=make -D prefix=/opt/VRTSperl -D usethreads -D useithreads -D useperlio -D use64bitint' hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define usethreads=define use5005threads=undef useithreads=define usemultiplicity=define useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef use64bitint=define use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef Compiler: cc='gcc', ccflags ='-D_REENTRANT -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -Wdeclaration-after-statement -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64', optimize='-O', cppflags='-D_REENTRANT -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -Wdeclaration-after-statement -I/usr/local/include' ccversion='', gccversion='3.4.2', gccosandvers='solaris2.8' intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=87654321 d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16 ivtype='long long', ivsize=8, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8 alignbytes=8, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='gcc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib ' libpth=/usr/local/lib /usr/lib /usr/ccs/lib libs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lpthread -lc perllibs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lpthread -lc libc=/lib/libc.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a gnulibc_version='' Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' ' cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-G -L/usr/local/lib' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT PERL_MALLOC_WRAP USE_64_BIT_INT USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILES USE_PERLIO USE_REENTRANT_API Built under solaris Compiled at May 1 2007 14:18:14 @INC: /opt/VRTSperl/lib/5.8.8/sun4-solaris-thread-multi-64int /opt/VRTSperl/lib/5.8.8 /opt/VRTSperl/lib/site_perl/5.8.8/sun4-solaris-thread-multi-64int /opt/VRTSperl/lib/site_perl/5.8.8 /opt/VRTSperl/lib/site_perl .