Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 14 subversion 2) configuration: Platform: osname=aix, osvers=6.1.0.0, archname=aix-64int uname='aix awlk192 1 6 00f621134c00 ' config_args='-Dcc=xlc -Duserelocatableinc -Dprefix=/elsewhere/perl -Dinc_version_list=none -Uusethreads -Dusesitecustomize -Duse64bitint -Dcf_email=William.Ricker@FMR.com -Dperladmin=William.Ricker@FMR.com -Dstartperl=#!/usr/bin/env perl -Dextras=JSON::XS -des' hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define useithreads=undef, usemultiplicity=undef useperlio=define, d_sfio=undef, uselargefiles=define, usesocks=undef use64bitint=define, use64bitall=undef, uselongdouble=undef usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef Compiler: cc='xlc -q32', ccflags ='-D_ALL_SOURCE -D_ANSI_C_SOURCE -D_POSIX_SOURCE -qmaxmem=-1 -qnoansialias -DUSE_NATIVE_DLOPEN -qlanglvl=extended -q32 -D_LARGE_FILES -qlonglong', optimize='-O', cppflags='-D_ALL_SOURCE -D_ANSI_C_SOURCE -D_POSIX_SOURCE -qmaxmem=-1 -qnoansialias -DUSE_NATIVE_DLOPEN -qlanglvl=extended' ccversion='11.1.0.7', gccversion='', gccosandvers='' intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=87654321 d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=8 ivtype='long long', ivsize=8, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8 alignbytes=8, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='ld', ldflags =' -brtl -bdynamic -b32 -bmaxdata:0x80000000' libpth=/lib /usr/lib /usr/ccs/lib libs=-lbind -lnsl -ldbm -ldl -lld -lm -lcrypt -lc perllibs=-lbind -lnsl -ldl -lld -lm -lcrypt -lc libc=/lib/libc.a, so=a, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a gnulibc_version='' Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_aix.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' -bE:.../../lib/5.14.2/aix-64int/CORE/perl.exp' cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags=' -bhalt:4 -G -bI:$(PERL_INC)/perl.exp -bE:$(BASEEXT).exp -bnoentry -lc -lm' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV PERL_MALLOC_WRAP PERL_PRESERVE_IVUV USE_64_BIT_INT USE_LARGE_FILES USE_PERLIO USE_PERL_ATOF USE_SITECUSTOMIZE Built under aix Compiled at Oct 24 2011 13:21:31 @INC: ../lib/site_perl/5.14.2/aix-64int ../lib/site_perl/5.14.2 ../lib/5.14.2/aix-64int ../lib/5.14.2 .