$ /my_path_to/perl5/bin/perl -V Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 18 subversion 0) configuration: Platform: osname=solaris, osvers=2.10, archname=sun4-solaris-64 uname='sunos cfprepagop01 5.10 generic_148888-05 sun4v sparc sun4v ' config_args='-des -Dprefix=/ -Duse64bitall -Duserelocatableinc -Dinitialinstalllocation=/foo -Dmake=/usr/sfw/bin/gmake -Dcc=gcc -Doptimize=-O2 -Dcf_by=arielCo -Dcf_email=arielco@mycompany.com' hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define useithreads=undef, usemultiplicity=undef useperlio=define, d_sfio=undef, uselargefiles=define, usesocks=undef use64bitint=define, use64bitall=define, uselongdouble=undef usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef Compiler: cc='gcc', ccflags ='-mcpu=v9 -m64 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV', optimize='-O2', cppflags='-mcpu=v9 -m64 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe' ccversion='', gccversion='3.4.3 (csl-sol210-3_4-branch+sol_rpath)', gccosandvers='solaris2.10' intsize=4, longsize=8, ptrsize=8, doublesize=8, byteorder=87654321 d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16 ivtype='long', ivsize=8, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8 alignbytes=8, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='gcc', ldflags =' -m64 -L/usr/lib/sparcv9 ' libpth=/usr/lib/sparcv9 /usr/lib /usr/ccs/lib libs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lc perllibs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lc libc=/usr/lib/sparcv9/libc.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a gnulibc_version='' Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' ' cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags=' -G -m64 -L/usr/lib/sparcv9' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: HAS_TIMES PERLIO_LAYERS PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV PERL_HASH_FUNC_ONE_AT_A_TIME_HARD PERL_MALLOC_WRAP PERL_PRESERVE_IVUV PERL_SAWAMPERSAND PERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV USE_64_BIT_ALL USE_64_BIT_INT USE_LARGE_FILES USE_LOCALE USE_LOCALE_COLLATE USE_LOCALE_CTYPE USE_LOCALE_NUMERIC USE_PERLIO USE_PERL_ATOF Built under solaris Compiled at Sep 9 2013 13:09:04 @INC: /my_path_to/perl5/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.18.0/sun4-solaris-64 /my_path_to/perl5/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.18.0 /my_path_to/perl5/lib/perl5/5.18.0/sun4-solaris-64 /my_path_to/perl5/lib/perl5/5.18.0 .