Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 30 subversion 3) configuration: Platform: osname=linux osvers=2.6.9-34.elsmp archname=x86_64-linux uname='linux gcp4al16 2.6.9-34.elsmp #1 smp fri feb 24 16:56:28 est 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 gnulinux ' config_args='-des -Dprefix=/home/rg8239/perl -Dcc=gcc' hint=recommended useposix=true d_sigaction=define useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=undef use64bitint=define use64bitall=define uselongdouble=undef usemymalloc=n default_inc_excludes_dot=define bincompat5005=undef Compiler: cc='gcc' ccflags ='-fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64' optimize='-O2' cppflags='-fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include' ccversion='' gccversion='3.4.5 20051201 (Red Hat 3.4.5-2)' gccosandvers='' intsize=4 longsize=8 ptrsize=8 doublesize=8 byteorder=12345678 doublekind=3 d_longlong=define longlongsize=8 d_longdbl=define longdblsize=16 longdblkind=3 ivtype='long' ivsize=8 nvtype='double' nvsize=8 Off_t='off_t' lseeksize=8 alignbytes=8 prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='gcc' ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib' libpth=/usr/local/lib /usr/lib /lib /lib64 /usr/lib64 /usr/local/lib64 libs=-lpthread -lnsl -lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc perllibs=-lpthread -lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc libc=libc-2.3.4.so so=so useshrplib=false libperl=libperl.a gnulibc_version='2.3.4' Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs dlext=so d_dlsymun=undef ccdlflags='-Wl,-E' cccdlflags='-fPIC' lddlflags='-shared -O2 -L/usr/local/lib' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: HAS_TIMES PERLIO_LAYERS PERL_COPY_ON_WRITE PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV PERL_MALLOC_WRAP PERL_OP_PARENT PERL_PRESERVE_IVUV USE_64_BIT_ALL USE_64_BIT_INT USE_LARGE_FILES USE_LOCALE USE_LOCALE_COLLATE USE_LOCALE_CTYPE USE_LOCALE_NUMERIC USE_LOCALE_TIME USE_PERLIO USE_PERL_ATOF Built under linux Compiled at Jun 18 2020 02:25:18 @INC: /home/rg8239/perl/lib/site_perl/5.30.3/x86_64-linux /home/rg8239/perl/lib/site_perl/5.30.3 /home/rg8239/perl/lib/5.30.3/x86_64-linux /home/rg8239/perl/lib/5.30.3