Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 8 patch 27029) configuration: Platform: osname=hpux, osvers=11.11, archname=PA-RISC2.0 uname='hp-ux r3 b.11.11 u 9000800 1909236376 unlimited-user license ' config_args='-Dcc=gcc -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=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef Compiler: cc='gcc', ccflags ='-mpa-risc-2-0 -DPERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV -D_HPUX_SOURCE -DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -Wdeclaration-after-statement -I/pro/local/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/pro/local/include' ccversion='', gccversion='3.4.5', gccosandvers='hpux11.11' 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=8 alignbytes=8, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='/usr/bin/ld', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib' libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib /usr/ccs/lib libs=-lcl -lpthread -lnsl -lnm -lndbm -lgdbm -ldb -lmalloc -ldld -lm -lsec -lc perllibs=-lcl -lpthread -lnsl -lnm -lmalloc -ldld -lm -lsec -lc libc=/lib/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='-fPIC', lddlflags='-b -L/usr/local/lib' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: DEBUGGING PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV PERL_MALLOC_WRAP USE_LARGE_FILES USE_PERLIO Locally applied patches: defined-or Built under hpux Compiled at Feb 1 2006 12:07:21 %ENV: PERL5_CPANPLUS_CONFIG="/u/usr/merijn/.cpanplus/config" @INC: /opt/perl/lib/5.8.8/PA-RISC2.0 /opt/perl/lib/5.8.8 /opt/perl/lib/site_perl/5.8.8/PA-RISC2.0 /opt/perl/lib/site_perl/5.8.8 /opt/perl/lib/site_perl .