Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 11 subversion 0) configuration: Commit id: Platform: osname=linux, osvers=2.6.18-92.el5, archname=i686-linux uname='linux alula.local 2.6.18-92.el5 #1 smp tue jun 10 18:49:47 edt 2008 i686 i686 i386 gnulinux ' config_args='-DDEBUGGING' hint=previous, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define 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='cc', ccflags ='-DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64', optimize='-g', cppflags='-DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector -I/usr/local/include -DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64' ccversion='', gccversion='4.1.2 20071124 (Red Hat 4.1.2-42)', 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=4, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='cc', ldflags =' -fstack-protector -L/usr/local/lib' libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib libs=-lnsl -lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc perllibs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc libc=/lib/libc-2.5.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a gnulibc_version='2.5' Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-Wl,-E' cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-shared -g -L/usr/local/lib -fstack-protector' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: DEBUGGING PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV PERL_MALLOC_WRAP USE_LARGE_FILES USE_PERLIO Built under linux Compiled at Mar 29 2009 08:05:39 %ENV: PERLDOC_PAGER="less" @INC: /home/ian/localperl/lib/site_perl/5.11.0/i686-linux /home/ian/localperl/lib/site_perl/5.11.0 /home/ian/localperl/lib/5.11.0/i686-linux /home/ian/localperl/lib/5.11.0 .