Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 8 patch 27029) configuration: Platform: osname=hpux, osvers=11.23, archname=IA64.ARCHREV_0-LP64 uname='hp-ux x1 b.11.23 u ia64 3295073263 unlimited-user license ' config_args='-Dusedevel -Duse64bitint -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=define use64bitall=define uselongdouble=undef usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef Compiler: cc='gcc', ccflags ='-mlp64 -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='-mlp64 -DPERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV -D_HPUX_SOURCE -mlp64 -DPERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV -D_HPUX_SOURCE -DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -Wdeclaration-after-statement -I/pro/local/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 ='-mlp64 -L/pro/local/lib -L/usr/lib/hpux64' libpth=/usr/lib/hpux64 /lib /usr/lib /usr/ccs/lib /usr/local/lib libs=-lcl -lpthread -lnsl -lnm -ldl -ldld -lm -lsec -lc perllibs=-lcl -lpthread -lnsl -lnm -ldl -ldld -lm -lsec -lc libc=/usr/lib/hpux64/libc.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a gnulibc_version='' Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_hpux.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-Wl,-E -Wl,-B,deferred ' cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-b -L/pro/local/lib -L/usr/lib/hpux64' 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 12:12:55 %ENV: PERL5_CPANPLUS_CONFIG="/u/usr/merijn/.cpanplus/config" @INC: /opt/perl64/lib/5.8.8/IA64.ARCHREV_0-LP64 /opt/perl64/lib/5.8.8 /opt/perl64/lib/site_perl/5.8.8/IA64.ARCHREV_0-LP64 /opt/perl64/lib/site_perl/5.8.8 /opt/perl64/lib/site_perl .