Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 8 patch 27029) configuration: Platform: osname=hpux, osvers=11.00, archname=PA-RISC2.0-LP64 uname='hp-ux a5 b.11.00 u 9000800 871940681 unlimited-user license ' config_args='-Dusedevel -Dcc=gcc64 -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='gcc64', ccflags ='-mpa-risc-2-0 -DPERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV -D_HPUX_SOURCE -DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -Wdeclaration-after-statement -I/usr/local/pa20_64/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64', optimize='-g -O', cppflags='-mpa-risc-2-0 -DPERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV -D_HPUX_SOURCE -mpa-risc-2-0 -DPERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV -D_HPUX_SOURCE -DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -Wdeclaration-after-statement -I/usr/local/pa20_64/include' ccversion='', gccversion='4.0.2', 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 =' -L/usr/local/pa20_64/lib -L/lib/pa20_64' libpth=/usr/local/pa20_64/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 ' cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-b -L/usr/local/pa20_64/lib -L/lib/pa20_64' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: DEBUGGING PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV PERL_MALLOC_WRAP USE_64_BIT_ALL USE_64_BIT_INT USE_LARGE_FILES USE_PERLIO Locally applied patches: defined-or Built under hpux Compiled at Feb 1 2006 12:58:01 %ENV: PERL5_CPANPLUS_CONFIG="/u/usr/merijn/.cpanplus/config" @INC: /opt/perl64/lib/5.8.8/PA-RISC2.0-LP64 /opt/perl64/lib/5.8.8 /opt/perl64/lib/site_perl/5.8.8/PA-RISC2.0-LP64 /opt/perl64/lib/site_perl/5.8.8 /opt/perl64/lib/site_perl .