Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 26 subversion 1) configuration: Platform: osname=linux osvers=2.6.16.21-0.8-default archname=x86_64-linux-thread-multi uname='linux 2.6.16.21-0.8-default #1 mon jul 3 18:25:39 utc 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 gnulinux ' config_args='-d -s -e -U uselargefiles -U use64bitint -U usemorebits -D usemultiplicity -D usethreads -D prefix=/opt/perl/a -D installusrbinperl=no -D useshrplib -D ccflags= -D libperl=libperl.so -D man1dir= -D perladmin=none -D pager=/usr/bin/less -D otherlibdirs=/opt/perl/a/lib/site_perl' hint=recommended useposix=true d_sigaction=define useithreads=define usemultiplicity=define use64bitint=define use64bitall=define uselongdouble=undef usemymalloc=n default_inc_excludes_dot=define bincompat5005=undef Compiler: cc='cc' ccflags ='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector -I/usr/local/include -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2' optimize='-O2' cppflags='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector -I/usr/local/include' ccversion='' gccversion='4.1.0 (SUSE Linux)' gccosandvers='' intsize=4 longsize=8 ptrsize=8 doublesize=8 byteorder=12345678 doublekind=3 d_longlong=define longlongsize=8 d_longdbl=define longdblsize=16 longdblkind=3 ivtype='long' ivsize=8 nvtype='double' nvsize=8 Off_t='off_t' lseeksize=8 alignbytes=8 prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='cc' ldflags =' -fstack-protector -L/usr/local/lib' libpth=/usr/local/lib /usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.1.0/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/lib /usr/lib /lib/../lib64 /usr/lib/../lib64 /lib /lib64 /usr/lib64 /usr/local/lib64 libs=-lpthread -lnsl -lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc -lgdbm_compat perllibs=-lpthread -lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc libc=libc-2.4.so so=so useshrplib=true libperl=libperl.so gnulibc_version='2.4' Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs dlext=so d_dlsymun=undef ccdlflags='-Wl,-E -Wl,-rpath,/opt/perl/a/lib/5.26.1/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/CORE' cccdlflags='-fPIC' lddlflags='-shared -O2 -L/usr/local/lib -fstack-protector' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: HAS_TIMES MULTIPLICITY PERLIO_LAYERS PERL_COPY_ON_WRITE PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT PERL_MALLOC_WRAP PERL_OP_PARENT PERL_PRESERVE_IVUV USE_64_BIT_ALL USE_64_BIT_INT USE_ITHREADS USE_LOCALE USE_LOCALE_COLLATE USE_LOCALE_CTYPE USE_LOCALE_NUMERIC USE_LOCALE_TIME USE_PERLIO USE_PERL_ATOF USE_REENTRANT_API Built under linux