Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 10 subversion 0) configuration: Platform: osname=darwin, osvers=9.1.0, archname=darwin-multi-2level uname='darwin syeeda.local 9.1.0 darwin kernel version 9.1.0: wed oct 31 17:46:22 pdt 2007; root:xnu-1228.0.2~1release_i386 i386 ' config_args='-Uusethreads -Dusemultiplicity -de -s' hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define useithreads=undef, usemultiplicity=define useperlio=define, d_sfio=undef, uselargefiles=define, usesocks=undef use64bitint=undef, use64bitall=undef, uselongdouble=undef usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef Compiler: cc='cc', ccflags ='-fno-common -DPERL_DARWIN -no-cpp-precomp -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include', optimize='-O3', cppflags='-no-cpp-precomp -fno-common -DPERL_DARWIN -no-cpp-precomp -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include' ccversion='', gccversion='4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5465)', gccosandvers='' intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234 d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16 ivtype='long', ivsize=4, 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 =' -L/usr/local/lib' libpth=/usr/local/lib /usr/lib libs=-ldbm -ldl -lm -lutil -lc perllibs=-ldl -lm -lutil -lc libc=/usr/lib/libc.dylib, 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' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT PERL_MALLOC_WRAP USE_LARGE_FILES USE_PERLIO Built under darwin Compiled at Jan 29 2008 05:47:00 %ENV: PERL5LIB="/usr/local/svk-1.06/perl/darwin-thread-multi-2level/" PERL5_CPANPLUS_CONFIG="/Users/nothingmuch/.cpanplus/config" PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT="1" @INC: /usr/local/svk-1.06/perl/darwin-thread-multi-2level/ /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.10.0/darwin-multi-2level /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.10.0 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0/darwin-multi-2level /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl .