Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 8) configuration: Platform: osname=solaris, osvers=2.8, archname=sun4-solaris-thread-multi-64 uname='sunos machete 5.8 generic_117350-38 sun4u sparc sunw,sun-blade-100 ' config_args='-ders -Dcc=cc -Dusethreads -Duseithreads -Ud_sigsetjmp -Uinstallusrbinperl -Ulocincpth= -Uloclibpth= -Duse64bitall -Ud_strerror_r -Accflags=-DUSE_SITECUSTOMIZE -Duselargefiles -Accflags=-DNO_HASH_SEED -Dprefix=/opt/ActivePerl-5.8 -Dprivlib=/opt/ActivePerl-5.8/lib -Darchlib=/opt/ActivePerl-5.8/lib -Dsiteprefix=/opt/ActivePerl-5.8/site -Dsitelib=/opt/ActivePerl-5.8/site/lib -Dsitearch=/opt/ActivePerl-5.8/site/lib -Dsed=/usr/bin/sed -Dconfig_heavy=Config_static.pl -Dcf_by=ActiveState -Dcf_email=support@ActiveState.com' hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define usethreads=define use5005threads=undef useithreads=define usemultiplicity=define useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef use64bitint=define use64bitall=define uselongdouble=undef usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef Compiler: cc='cc', ccflags ='-D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS -D_REENTRANT -xarch=v9 -DUSE_SITECUSTOMIZE -DNO_HASH_SEED -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64', optimize='-O', cppflags='-D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS -D_REENTRANT -xarch=v9 -DUSE_SITECUSTOMIZE -DNO_HASH_SEED' ccversion='Forte Developer 7 C 5.4 2002/03/09', 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='cc', ldflags =' -xarch=v9 -L/opt/SUNWspro/prod/lib/v9 -L/usr/lib/sparcv9 -L/usr/ccs/lib/sparcv9 ' libpth=/opt/SUNWspro/prod/lib/v9 /usr/lib/sparcv9 /usr/ccs/lib/sparcv9 /usr/lib /usr/ccs/lib /usr/local/lib libs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lpthread -lc perllibs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lpthread -lc libc=/usr/lib/sparcv9/libc.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a gnulibc_version='' Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' ' cccdlflags='-KPIC', lddlflags=' -G -xarch=v9 -L/opt/SUNWspro/prod/lib/v9 -L/usr/lib/sparcv9 -L/usr/ccs/lib/sparcv9' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT PERL_MALLOC_WRAP USE_64_BIT_ALL USE_64_BIT_INT USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILES USE_PERLIO USE_REENTRANT_API USE_SITECUSTOMIZE Locally applied patches: ActivePerl Build 820 [274679] Iin_load_module moved for compatibility with build 806 PerlEx support in CGI::Carp Less verbose ExtUtils::Install and Pod::Find Patch for CAN-2005-0448 from Debian with modifications Rearrange @INC so that 'site' is searched before 'perl' Partly reverted 24733 to preserve binary compatibility 28376 Add error checks after execing PL_cshname or PL_sh_path 28305 Pod::Html should not convert "foo" into ``foo'' 27833 Change anchor generation in Pod::Html for '=item item 2' 27832,27847 fix Pod::Html::depod() for multi-line strings 27736 Make perl_fini() run with Sun WorkShop compiler 27719 Document the functions htmlify() and anchorify() in Pod::Html 27619 Bug in Term::ReadKey being triggered by a bug in Term::ReadLine 27549 Move DynaLoader.o into libperl.so 27515 ignore directories when searching @INC 27359 Fix -d:Foo=bar syntax 27210 Fix quote typo in c2ph 27203 Allow compiling swigged C++ code 27133 Initialise lastparen in the regexp structure 27061 L and Pod::Html 27034 Avoid "Prototype mismatch" warnings with autouse 26970 Make Passive mode the default for Net::FTP 26921 Avoid getprotobyname/number calls in IO::Socket::INET 26897,26903 Make common IPPROTO_* constants always available 26670 Make '-s' on the shebang line parse -foo=bar switches 26536 INSTALLSCRIPT versus INSTALLDIRS 26087 Storable 0.1 compatibility 25861 IO::File performace issue 25084 long groups entry could cause memory exhaustion 24699 ICMP_UNREACHABLE handling in Net::Ping Built under solaris Compiled at Jan 22 2007 20:05:24 @INC: /opt/ActivePerl-5.8/site/lib /opt/ActivePerl-5.8/lib .