Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 5 patch 23110) configuration: Platform: osname=hpux, osvers=11.11, archname=PA-RISC2.0-LP64 uname='hp-ux r3 b.11.11 u 9000800 1909236376 unlimited-user license ' config_args='-Dusedevel -Duse64bitall -des' hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef 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='cc', ccflags =' -Ae -D_HPUX_SOURCE -Wl,+vnocompatwarnings +DD64 -I/pro/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 ', optimize='+O2 +Onolimit', cppflags='-Aa -D__STDC_EXT__ -D_HPUX_SOURCE -D_HPUX_SOURCE -Wl,+vnocompatwarnings +DD64 -I/pro/local/include' ccversion='B.11.11.10', gccversion='', gccosandvers='' 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='/usr/bin/ld', ldflags ='+DD64 -L/lib/pa20_64 -L/usr/local/pa20_64/lib -L/pro/local/lib' libpth=/pro/local/lib /lib/pa20_64 /lib /usr/lib /usr/ccs/lib /usr/local/lib libs=-lcl -lpthread -lnsl -lnm -lgdbm -ldb -ldl -ldld -lm -lsec -lc perllibs=-lcl -lpthread -lnsl -lnm -ldl -ldld -lm -lsec -lc libc=/lib/pa20_64/libc.sl, so=sl, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a gnulibc_version='' Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_hpux.xs, dlext=sl, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-Wl,-E -Wl,-B,deferred ' cccdlflags='+Z', lddlflags='-b +vnocompatwarnings -L/lib/pa20_64 -L/usr/local/pa20_64/lib -L/pro/local/lib' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: USE_64_BIT_INT USE_64_BIT_ALL USE_LARGE_FILES Locally applied patches: MAINT23067 defined-or Built under hpux Compiled at Jul 15 2004 17:42:08 %ENV: PERL5_CPANPLUS_CONFIG="/u/usr/merijn/.cpanplus/config" @INC: /pro/lib/perl5/5.8.5/PA-RISC2.0-LP64 /pro/lib/perl5/5.8.5 /pro/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/PA-RISC2.0-LP64 /pro/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5 /pro/lib/perl5/site_perl .