Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 10 subversion 0 patch 34065) configuration: Platform: osname=cygwin, osvers=1.5.25(0.15642), archname=cygwin-thread-multi-64int uname='cygwin_nt-5.1 reini 1.5.25(0.15642) 2008-06-12 19:34 i686 cygwin ' config_args='-de -Dmksymlinks -Dusethreads -Dmad=y -Dusedevel' hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define useithreads=define, usemultiplicity=define useperlio=define, d_sfio=undef, uselargefiles=define, usesocks=undef use64bitint=define, use64bitall=undef, uselongdouble=undef usemymalloc=y, bincompat5005=undef Compiler: cc='gcc', ccflags ='-DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -U__STRICT_ANSI__ -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include', optimize='-O3', cppflags='-DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -U__STRICT_ANSI__ -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include' ccversion='', gccversion='3.4.4 (cygming special, gdc 0.12, using dmd 0.125)', gccosandvers='' intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=12345678 d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12 ivtype='long long', ivsize=8, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8 alignbytes=8, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='g++', ldflags =' -Wl,--enable-auto-import -Wl,--export-all-symbols -Wl,--stack,8388608 -Wl,--enable-auto-image-base -L/usr/local/lib' libpth=/usr/local/lib /usr/lib /lib libs=-lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lcrypt -lgdbm_compat perllibs=-ldl -lcrypt libc=/usr/lib/libc.a, so=dll, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.a gnulibc_version='' Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=dll, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' ' cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags=' --shared -Wl,--enable-auto-import -Wl,--export-all-symbols -Wl,--stack,8388608 -Wl,--enable-auto-image-base -L/usr/local/lib' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY MYMALLOC PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT PERL_MAD PERL_MALLOC_WRAP PERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV USE_64_BIT_INT USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILES USE_PERLIO USE_REENTRANT_API Locally applied patches: MAINT34065 CYG11 no-bs CYG12 no archlib in otherlibdirs CYG14 Dynaloader CYG15 static-Win32CORE Bug#55162 File::Spec::case_tolerant performance Built under cygwin Compiled at Jun 30 2008 16:05:15 %ENV: PERL5LIB="/Users/C5111692/p4_perforce50015001_WDFN00198661A/hosttools/ap_hosttools/dev/school_admin/apache/cgi-bin/:/Users/C5111692/p4_perforce50015001_WDFN00198661A/hosttools/ap_hosttools/dev/d030147/cpr3/CPR3_MODULES/:/Users/C5111692/p4_perforce50015001_WDFN00198661A/hosttools/ap_hosttools/dev/d030147/cpr3/lib/:/Users/C5111692/p4_perforce50015001_WDFN00198661A/hosttools/ap_hosttools/dev/d030147/cpr3/" CYGWIN="server" @INC: /Users/C5111692/p4_perforce50015001_WDFN00198661A/hosttools/ap_hosttools/dev/school_admin/apache/cgi-bin/ /Users/C5111692/p4_perforce50015001_WDFN00198661A/hosttools/ap_hosttools/dev/d030147/cpr3/CPR3_MODULES/ /Users/C5111692/p4_perforce50015001_WDFN00198661A/hosttools/ap_hosttools/dev/d030147/cpr3/lib/ /Users/C5111692/p4_perforce50015001_WDFN00198661A/hosttools/ap_hosttools/dev/d030147/cpr3/ /usr/lib/perl5/5.10/i686-cygwin /usr/lib/perl5/5.10 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10/i686-cygwin /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10/i686-cygwin /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8 .