Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 6 subversion 2) configuration: Platform: osname=linux, osvers=3.2.0-2-amd64, archname=x86_64-linux uname='linux reini 3.2.0-2-amd64 #1 smp mon may 21 17:45:41 utc 2012 x86_64 gnulinux ' config_args='-de -Dusedevel -Dinstallman1dir=none -Dinstallman3dir=none -Dinstallsiteman1dir=none -Dinstallsiteman3dir=none -Uuseithreads -Accflags=-msse4.2 -Accflags=-march=corei7 -Dcf_email=rurban@cpanel.net -Dperladmin=rurban@cpanel.net -Duseshrplib -DPERL_EXTERNAL_GLOB' hint=previous, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef use64bitint=define use64bitall=define uselongdouble=undef Compiler: cc='cc', ccflags ='-msse4.2 -march=corei7 -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -msse4.2 -march=corei7', optimize='-O2', cppflags='-msse4.2 -march=corei7 -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -msse4.2 -march=corei7' ccversion='', gccversion='4.6.3', 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, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib' libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu /lib/../lib /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu /usr/lib/../lib /lib /usr/lib libs=-lnsl -lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lc -lcrypt -lutil -lgdbm_compat perllibs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lc -lcrypt -lutil -lgdbm_compat libc=, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-rdynamic -Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.2/x86_64-linux/CORE' cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: USE_64_BIT_INT USE_64_BIT_ALL USE_LARGE_FILES Built under linux Compiled at Jan 30 2018 11:46:01 @INC: /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.2/x86_64-linux /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.2 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.2/x86_64-linux /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.2 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.1 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl .