Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 6 subversion 0) configuration: Platform: osname=aix, osvers=5.0.0.0, archname=aix uname='aix shaq 1 5 006044854c00 ' config_args='-de' hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=undf useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef usesocks=undef Compiler: cc='cc', optimize='-O', gccversion= cppflags='-D_ALL_SOURCE -D_ANSI_C_SOURCE -D_POSIX_SOURCE -qmaxmem=16384' ccflags ='-D_ALL_SOURCE -D_ANSI_C_SOURCE -D_POSIX_SOURCE -qmaxmem=16384 -q3' stdchar='unsigned char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=false intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8 d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=8 ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksiz8 alignbytes=8, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='ld', ldflags ='-b32' libpth=/lib /usr/lib /usr/ccs/lib libs=-lbind -lnsl -lgdbm -ldbm -ldb -ldl -lld -lm -lC -lC_r -lc -lcrypt -lbv libc=/lib/libc.a, so=a, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_aix.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' -bE:/usr/opt/perl5' cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags='-bhalt:4 -bM:SRE -bI:$(PERL_INC)/perl.exp -bE:$(' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: USE_LARGE_FILES Built under aix Compiled at Nov 22 2000 08:49:49 @INC: /usr/opt/perl5/lib/5.6.0/aix /usr/opt/perl5/lib/5.6.0 /usr/opt/perl5/lib/site_perl/5.6.0/aix /usr/opt/perl5/lib/site_perl/5.6.0 /usr/opt/perl5/lib/site_perl .