Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 24 subversion 0) configuration: Platform: osname=darwin, osvers=15.4.0, archname=darwin-2level uname='darwin stravinski.local 15.4.0 darwin kernel version 15.4.0: fri feb 26 22:08:05 pst 2016; root:xnu-3248.40.184~3release_x86_64 x86_64 ' config_args='-Dprefix=/opt/perl' hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define useithreads=undef, usemultiplicity=undef use64bitint=define, use64bitall=define, uselongdouble=undef usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef Compiler: cc='cc', ccflags ='-fno-common -DPERL_DARWIN -mmacosx-version-min=10.11 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector-strong -I/usr/local/include -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV', optimize='-O3', cppflags='-fno-common -DPERL_DARWIN -mmacosx-version-min=10.11 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector-strong -I/usr/local/include' ccversion='', gccversion='4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 7.0.0 (clang-700.1.75)', 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='cc', ldflags =' -mmacosx-version-min=10.11 -fstack-protector-strong -L/usr/local/lib' libpth=/usr/local/lib /Volumes/HDD/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/../lib/clang/7.0.0/lib /Volumes/HDD/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/lib /usr/lib libs=-lpthread -lgdbm -ldbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lutil -lc perllibs=-lpthread -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=' -mmacosx-version-min=10.11 -bundle -undefined dynamic_lookup -L/usr/local/lib -fstack-protector-strong' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: HAS_TIMES PERLIO_LAYERS PERL_COPY_ON_WRITE PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV PERL_HASH_FUNC_ONE_AT_A_TIME_HARD PERL_MALLOC_WRAP PERL_PRESERVE_IVUV PERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV 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 darwin Compiled at May 9 2016 15:04:53 %ENV: PERL_AUTOINSTALL_PREFER_CPAN="1" PERL_CPANM_OPT="-S" @INC: /opt/perl/lib/site_perl/5.24.0/darwin-2level /opt/perl/lib/site_perl/5.24.0 /opt/perl/lib/5.24.0/darwin-2level /opt/perl/lib/5.24.0 .