in reply to mod_perl install troubles

Nasty. You can find out how perl is linked without decyphering the CC flags with ldd:

$sam@fractal:~$ ldd `which perl` libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x40020000) libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x40023000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40045000) libcrypt.so.1 => /lib/libcrypt.so.1 (0x40164000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000) sam@fractal:~$

ldd shows you which libraries will be linked in to your perl on execution; if there are any there at all, your perl is dynamically linked.

Hope this helps!