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