perl -V Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 20 subversion 1) configuration: Platform: osname=aix, osvers=6.1.0.0, archname=aix-thread-multi uname='aix blade08 1 6 00003c3ad100 ' config_args='-d -Dprefix=/usr/opt/perl5 -Dcc=xlc_r -Duseshrplib -Dusethreads' hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define useithreads=define, usemultiplicity=define use64bitint=undef, use64bitall=undef, uselongdouble=undef usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef Compiler: cc='xlc_r -q32', ccflags ='-D_ALL_SOURCE -D_ANSI_C_SOURCE -D_POSIX_SOURCE -qmaxmem=-1 -qnoansialias -qlanglvl=extc99 -DUSE_NATIVE_DLOPEN -DNEED_PTHREAD_INIT -q32 -D_LARGE_FILES', optimize='-O', cppflags='-D_ALL_SOURCE -D_ANSI_C_SOURCE -D_POSIX_SOURCE -qmaxmem=-1 -qnoansialias -qlanglvl=extc99 -DUSE_NATIVE_DLOPEN -DNEED_PTHREAD_INIT' ccversion='12.1.0.9', gccversion='', gccosandvers='' intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=4321 d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=8 ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8 alignbytes=8, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='ld', ldflags =' -brtl -bdynamic -b32' libpth=/lib /usr/lib /usr/ccs/lib libs=-lbind -lnsl -ldbm -ldl -lld -lm -lcrypt -lpthreads -lc perllibs=-lbind -lnsl -ldl -lld -lm -lcrypt -lpthreads -lc libc=, so=a, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.a gnulibc_version='' Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_aix.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' -bE:/usr/opt/perl5/lib/5.20.1/aix-thread-multi/CORE/perl.exp' cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags='-bhalt:4 -G -bI:$(PERL_INC)/perl.exp -bE:$(BASEEXT).exp -bnoentry -lpthreads -lc -lm' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: HAS_TIMES MULTIPLICITY PERLIO_LAYERS PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV PERL_HASH_FUNC_ONE_AT_A_TIME_HARD PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT PERL_MALLOC_WRAP PERL_NEW_COPY_ON_WRITE PERL_PRESERVE_IVUV USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILES USE_LOCALE USE_LOCALE_COLLATE USE_LOCALE_CTYPE USE_LOCALE_NUMERIC USE_PERLIO USE_PERL_ATOF USE_REENTRANT_API Built under aix Compiled at Feb 6 2015 14:54:29 %ENV: PERL5LIB="/home/perl_ss/perl5/lib/perl5/aix-thread-multi:/home/perl_ss/perl5/lib/perl5:/usr/local/lib/site_perl/5.8.8:/usr/local/site_perl/common" PERL5OPT="" PERL5_CPANPLUS_IS_RUNNING="9961732" PERL5_CPAN_IS_RUNNING="9961732" PERL_LOCAL_LIB_ROOT="/home/perl_ss/perl5" PERL_MB_OPT="--install_base /home/perl_ss/perl5" PERL_MM_OPT="INSTALL_BASE=/home/perl_ss/perl5" @INC: /home/perl_ss/perl5/lib/perl5/aix-thread-multi /home/perl_ss/perl5/lib/perl5/aix-thread-multi /home/perl_ss/perl5/lib/perl5 /usr/local/lib/site_perl/5.8.8/aix-thread-multi /usr/local/lib/site_perl/5.8.8 /usr/local/site_perl/common /usr/opt/perl5/lib/site_perl/5.20.1/aix-thread-multi /usr/opt/perl5/lib/site_perl/5.20.1 /usr/opt/perl5/lib/5.20.1/aix-thread-multi /usr/opt/perl5/lib/5.20.1 /usr/opt/perl5/lib/site_perl/5.8.8 /usr/opt/perl5/lib/site_perl