Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 10 subversion 1) configuration: Platform: osname=linux, osvers=2.6.12.6-xen, archname=i686-linux-thread-multi uname='linux os-rh9 2.6.12.6-xen #1 smp tue jan 31 15:36:43 gmt 2006 i686 athlon i386 gnulinux ' config_args='-Dusethreads -Duseshrplib -Dldflags=-ldb-4.0 -Dcc=/usr/local/bin/gcc -Dprefix=/usr/local/perl/5.10.1 -Dsiteprefix=/usr/local/perl/site_perl/5.10.1 -Dvendorprefix=/usr/local/perl/vendor_perl/5.10.1 -Uinstallusrbinperl -Uusemymalloc -des' hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define useithreads=define, usemultiplicity=define useperlio=define, d_sfio=undef, uselargefiles=define, usesocks=undef use64bitint=undef, use64bitall=undef, uselongdouble=undef usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef Compiler: cc='/usr/local/bin/gcc ', ccflags ='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64', optimize='-O2', cppflags='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include' ccversion='', gccversion='3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)', 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='/usr/local/bin/gcc ', ldflags ='-ldb-4.0 -L/usr/local/lib' libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib libs=-lnsl -lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lpthread -lc perllibs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lpthread -lc libc=/lib/libc-2.3.2.so, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so gnulibc_version='2.3.2' Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-Wl,-E -Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/perl/5.10.1/lib/5.10.1/i686-linux-thread-multi/CORE' cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-shared -O2 -L/usr/local/lib' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT PERL_MALLOC_WRAP USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILES USE_PERLIO USE_REENTRANT_API Built under linux Compiled at Dec 23 2010 03:51:09 @INC: /usr/local/perl/5.10.1/lib/5.10.1/i686-linux-thread-multi /usr/local/perl/5.10.1/lib/5.10.1 /usr/local/perl/site_perl/5.10.1/lib/site_perl/5.10.1/i686-linux-thread-multi /usr/local/perl/site_perl/5.10.1/lib/site_perl/5.10.1 /usr/local/perl/vendor_perl/5.10.1/lib/vendor_perl/5.10.1/i686-linux-thread-multi /usr/local/perl/vendor_perl/5.10.1/lib/vendor_perl/5.10.1 /usr/local/perl/vendor_perl/5.10.1/lib/vendor_perl .