perl -V Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 14 subversion 2) configuration: Platform: osname=linux, osvers=2.6.11-1.1369_fc4, archname=x86_64-linux-thread-multi uname='linux perl-linux64-vm 2.6.11-1.1369_fc4 #1 thu jun 2 22:56:33 edt 2005 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 gnulinux ' config_args='-ders -Dcc=gcc -Dusethreads -Duseithreads -Uinstallusrbinperl -Ulocincpth= -Uloclibpth= -Duse64bitall -Dlibpth=/lib64 /usr/lib64 /usr/local/lib64 -Accflags=-DUSE_SITECUSTOMIZE -Duselargefiles -Accflags=-DPERL_RELOCATABLE_INCPUSH -Accflags=-fno-merge-constants -Dprefix=/opt/ActivePerl-5.14 -Dprivlib=/opt/ActivePerl-5.14/lib -Darchlib=/opt/ActivePerl-5.14/lib -Dsiteprefix=/opt/ActivePerl-5.14/site -Dsitelib=/opt/ActivePerl-5.14/site/lib -Dsitearch=/opt/ActivePerl-5.14/site/lib -Dsed=/bin/sed -Duseshrplib -Dcf_by=ActiveState -Dcf_email=support@ActiveState.com' hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define 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='gcc', ccflags ='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DUSE_SITECUSTOMIZE -DPERL_RELOCATABLE_INCPUSH -fno-merge-constants -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64', optimize='-O2', cppflags='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DUSE_SITECUSTOMIZE -DPERL_RELOCATABLE_INCPUSH -fno-merge-constants -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe' ccversion='', gccversion='4.0.0 20050519 (Red Hat 4.0.0-8)', gccosandvers='' intsize=4, longsize=8, ptrsize=8, doublesize=8, byteorder=12345678 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='gcc', ldflags ='' libpth=/lib64 /usr/lib64 /usr/local/lib64 libs=-lnsl -lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lpthread -lc perllibs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lpthread -lc libc=/lib/libc-2.3.5.so, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so gnulibc_version='2.3.5' Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-Wl,-E -Wl,-rpath,/opt/ActivePerl-5.14/lib/CORE' cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-shared -O2' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT PERL_MALLOC_WRAP PERL_PRESERVE_IVUV USE_64_BIT_ALL USE_64_BIT_INT USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILES USE_PERLIO USE_PERL_ATOF USE_REENTRANT_API USE_SITECUSTOMIZE Locally applied patches: ActivePerl Build 1402 [295342] Built under linux Compiled at Oct 9 2011 15:47:00 @INC: /opt/ActivePerl-5.14/site/lib /opt/ActivePerl-5.14/lib