Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 17 subversion 1) configuration: Platform: osname=linux, osvers=3.2.0-26-generic-pae, archname=i686-linux uname='linux fitter 3.2.0-26-generic-pae #41-ubuntu smp thu jun 14 16:45:14 utc 2012 i686 i686 i386 gnulinux ' config_args='-de -Dprefix=/home/michiel/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.17.1 -Dusedevel' hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define 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 -fstack-protector -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64', optimize='-O2', cppflags='-fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector -I/usr/local/include' ccversion='', gccversion='4.6.3', 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 =' -fstack-protector -L/usr/local/lib' libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib/i386-linux-gnu /lib/../lib /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu /usr/lib/../lib /lib /usr/lib libs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc perllibs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc libc=, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a gnulibc_version='2.15' Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-Wl,-E' cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-shared -O2 -L/usr/local/lib -fstack-protector' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: HAS_TIMES PERLIO_LAYERS PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV PERL_MALLOC_WRAP PERL_PRESERVE_IVUV PERL_USE_DEVEL USE_LARGE_FILES USE_LOCALE USE_LOCALE_COLLATE USE_LOCALE_CTYPE USE_LOCALE_NUMERIC USE_PERLIO USE_PERL_ATOF Built under linux Compiled at Jul 16 2012 10:53:40 %ENV: PERL5LIB="" PERL5OPT="" PERL5_CPANPLUS_IS_RUNNING="2515" PERL5_CPAN_IS_RUNNING="2515" PERLBREW_BASHRC_VERSION="0.35" PERLBREW_HOME="/home/michiel/.perlbrew" PERLBREW_MANPATH="/home/michiel/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.17.1/man" PERLBREW_PATH="/home/michiel/perl5/perlbrew/bin:/home/michiel/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.17.1/bin" PERLBREW_PERL="perl-5.17.1" PERLBREW_ROOT="/home/michiel/perl5/perlbrew" PERLBREW_VERSION="0.35" @INC: /home/michiel/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.17.1/lib/site_perl/5.17.1/i686-linux /home/michiel/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.17.1/lib/site_perl/5.17.1 /home/michiel/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.17.1/lib/5.17.1/i686-linux /home/michiel/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.17.1/lib/5.17.1 .