Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 8) configuration: Platform: osname=solaris, osvers=2.10, archname=sun4-solaris uname='sunos bikini-zone4.asd.mbalance.com 5.10 generic_118833-22 sun4u sparc sunw,sun-fire-v210 ' config_args='-Dlibpth=/usr/local/lib /usr/lib -DPolicy=solaris2 -Dprefix=/usr/local -Dcc=cc -Dinstallprefix=/usr/local -Dccflags=-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_TS_ERRNO -Doptimize=-xO3 -xspace -xildoff -Dperladmin=support@mbalance.com -Dvendorprefix=/usr/local -Dotherlibdirs=/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0 -desO' 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='cc', ccflags ='-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_TS_ERRNO -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV', optimize='-xO3 -xspace -xildoff', cppflags='-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_TS_ERRNO -I/usr/local/include' ccversion='Sun C 5.8 2005/10/13', gccversion='', 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=8 alignbytes=8, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/lib ' libpth=/usr/local/lib /usr/lib libs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lc perllibs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -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='-KPIC', lddlflags='-G -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/lib' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: PERL_MALLOC_WRAP PERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV USE_LARGE_FILES USE_PERLIO Built under solaris Compiled at Jun 21 2007 13:08:59 %ENV: PERLLIB="/u01/app/netboss/unsup/perl/lib/5.6.0:/u01/app/netboss/unsup/perl/lib/5.6.0/sun4-solaris:/u01/app/netboss/unsup/perl/lib/site_perl/5.6.0:/u01/app/netboss/unsup/perl/lib/site_perl/5.6.0/sun4-solaris" @INC: /u01/app/netboss/unsup/perl/lib/5.6.0 /u01/app/netboss/unsup/perl/lib/5.6.0/sun4-solaris /u01/app/netboss/unsup/perl/lib/site_perl/5.6.0 /u01/app/netboss/unsup/perl/lib/site_perl/5.6.0/sun4-solaris /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/sun4-solaris /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/sun4-solaris /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/local/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/sun4-solaris /usr/local/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8 /usr/local/lib/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0