Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 6 subversion 1) configuration: Platform: osname=hpux, osvers=11.00, archname=PA-RISC1.1 uname='hp-ux SYSTEMNAME b.11.00 a 9000800 2002134832 two-user license ' config_args='-Ubincompat5005 -Dcc=gcc -Duselargefiles' hint=previous, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef Compiler: cc='gcc', ccflags ='-D_HPUX_SOURCE -L/lib/pa1.1 -DUINT32_MAX_BROKEN -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -fPIC', optimize='-O', cppflags='-D_HPUX_SOURCE -L/lib/pa1.1 -DUINT32_MAX_BROKEN -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -fPIC' ccversion='', gccversion='3.0.4', gccosandvers='hpux11.00' intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=4321 d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16 ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=4 alignbytes=8, usemymalloc=y, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='ld', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib' libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib /usr/ccs/lib libs=-lcl -lpthread -lnsl -lnm -lndbm -lgdbm -ldld -lm -lc -lndir -lcrypt -lsec perllibs=-lcl -lpthread -lnsl -lnm -ldld -lm -lc -lndir -lcrypt -lsec libc=, so=sl, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_hpux.xs, dlext=sl, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-Wl,-E -Wl,-B,deferred ' cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-b -L/usr/local/lib' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: USE_LARGE_FILES Built under hpux Compiled at Jul 18 2002 15:28:03 @INC: /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/PA-RISC1.1 /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/PA-RISC1.1 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl .