[Hubert@ppc7 ~]$ perl -V Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 6) configuration: Platform: osname=linux, osvers=2.6.14-1.1656_fc4smp, archname=i686-linux uname='linux ppc7.bio.ucalgary.ca 2.6.14-1.1656_fc4smp #1 smp thu jan 5 22:24:06 est 2006 i686 i686 i386 gnulinux ' config_args='-ds -e' 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='cc', ccflags ='-fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/include/gdbm', optimize='-O2', cppflags='-fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include/gdbm' ccversion='', gccversion='4.0.2 20051125 (Red Hat 4.0.2-8)', gccosandvers='' intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234 d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12 ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8 alignbytes=4, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib' libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib libs=-lbind -lnsl -lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc perllibs=-lbind -lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc libc=/lib/libc-2.3.5.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a gnulibc_version='2.3.5' Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-Wl,-E' cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: USE_LARGE_FILES Built under linux Compiled at Feb 8 2006 15:05:02 @INC: /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i686-linux /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.6 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/i686-linux /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl . [Hubert@ppc7 ~]$