Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 18 subversion 2) configuration: Platform: osname=darwin, osvers=13.0.0, archname=darwin-2level uname='darwin stas-macbook.local 13.0.0 darwin kernel version 13.0.0: thu sep 19 22:22:27 pdt 2013; root:xnu-2422.1.72~6release_x86_64 x86_64 ' config_args='-de -Dprefix=/Users/stas/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.18.2 -Aeval:scriptdir=/Users/stas/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.18.2/bin' hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define useithreads=undef, usemultiplicity=undef useperlio=define, d_sfio=undef, uselargefiles=define, usesocks=undef use64bitint=define, use64bitall=define, uselongdouble=undef usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef Compiler: cc='cc', ccflags ='-fno-common -DPERL_DARWIN -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector -I/opt/local/include', optimize='-O3', cppflags='-fno-common -DPERL_DARWIN -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector -I/opt/local/include' ccversion='', gccversion='4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 5.0 (clang-500.2.79)', 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='env MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.3 cc', ldflags =' -fstack-protector -L/usr/local/lib -L/opt/local/lib' libpth=/usr/local/lib /opt/local/lib /usr/lib libs=-lgdbm -ldbm -ldl -lm -lutil -lc perllibs=-ldl -lm -lutil -lc libc=, so=dylib, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a gnulibc_version='' Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=bundle, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' ' cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags=' -bundle -undefined dynamic_lookup -L/usr/local/lib -L/opt/local/lib -fstack-protector' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: HAS_TIMES PERLIO_LAYERS PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV PERL_HASH_FUNC_ONE_AT_A_TIME_HARD PERL_MALLOC_WRAP PERL_PRESERVE_IVUV PERL_SAWAMPERSAND USE_64_BIT_ALL USE_64_BIT_INT USE_LARGE_FILES USE_LOCALE USE_LOCALE_COLLATE USE_LOCALE_CTYPE USE_LOCALE_NUMERIC USE_PERLIO USE_PERL_ATOF Built under darwin Compiled at Jan 7 2014 09:37:06 %ENV: PERLBREW_BASHRC_VERSION="0.65" PERLBREW_HOME="/Users/stas/.perlbrew" PERLBREW_MANPATH="/Users/stas/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.18.2/man" PERLBREW_PATH="/Users/stas/perl5/perlbrew/bin:/Users/stas/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.18.2/bin" PERLBREW_PERL="perl-5.18.2" PERLBREW_ROOT="/Users/stas/perl5/perlbrew" PERLBREW_VERSION="0.65" PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT="1" @INC: /Users/stas/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.18.2/lib/site_perl/5.18.2/darwin-2level /Users/stas/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.18.2/lib/site_perl/5.18.2 /Users/stas/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.18.2/lib/5.18.2/darwin-2level /Users/stas/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.18.2/lib/5.18.2 .