Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 12 subversion 2) configuration: Platform: osname=freebsd, osvers=8.0-release, archname=i386-freebsd-thread-multi-64int uname='freebsd tetsu.jk 8.0-release freebsd 8.0-release #0: sat nov 21 15:48:17 utc 20 config_args='-sde -Dprefix=/usr/local -Darchlib=/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.12.2/mach -Dpri hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define 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='cc', ccflags ='-DAPPLLIB_EXP="/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.12.2/BSDPAN" -DHAS_FPSETMASK optimize='-O2 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing', cppflags='-DAPPLLIB_EXP="/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.12.2/BSDPAN" -DHAS_FPSETMASK -DHAS_FLO ccversion='', gccversion='4.2.1 20070719 [FreeBSD]', gccosandvers='' intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=12345678 d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12 ivtype='long long', ivsize=8, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8 alignbytes=4, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='cc', ldflags ='-pthread -Wl,-E -fstack-protector -L/usr/local/lib' libpth=/usr/lib /usr/local/lib libs=-lgdbm -lm -lcrypt -lutil perllibs=-lm -lcrypt -lutil libc=, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so gnulibc_version='' Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' -Wl,-R/usr/local/lib/perl5 cccdlflags='-DPIC -fPIC', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib -fstack-protector' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT PERL_MALLOC_WRAP USE_64_BIT_INT USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILES USE_PERLIO USE_PERL_ATOF USE_REENTRANT_API Built under freebsd Compiled at Jan 19 2011 17:16:14 @INC: /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.12.2/BSDPAN /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12.2/mach /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12.2 /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.12.2/mach /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.12.2 .