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My Solaris 8 build of perl5.6.1 is showing the broken behaviour.
mikfire@borris) perl -V Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 6 subversion 1) configuratio +n: Platform: osname=solaris, osvers=2.8, archname=sun4-solaris uname='sunos borris 5.8 generic_108528-08 sun4u sparc sunw,sun-bla +de-100 ' config_args='' hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultipl +icity=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef Compiler: cc='gcc', ccflags ='-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -D_L +ARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64', optimize='-O2', cppflags='-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include' ccversion='', gccversion='2.95.2 19991024 (release)', gccosandvers +='solaris2.8' intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=4321 d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=1 +6 ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', + lseeksize=8 alignbytes=8, usemymalloc=y, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='gcc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib ' libpth=/usr/local/lib /usr/lib /usr/ccs/lib libs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lc perllibs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lc libc=/lib/libc.so, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' -R /us +r/local/perl5.6/lib/5.6.1/sun4-solaris/CORE' cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-G -L/usr/local/lib' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: USE_LARGE_FILES Built under solaris Compiled at Jun 25 2001 08:45:32 @INC: /usr/local/perl5.6/lib/5.6.1/sun4-solaris /usr/local/perl5.6/lib/5.6.1 /usr/local/perl5.6/lib/site_perl/5.6.1/sun4-solaris /usr/local/perl5.6/lib/site_perl/5.6.1 /usr/local/perl5.6/lib/site_perl .
mikfire