Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 8) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=2.6.12-12mdksmp, archname=i386-linux
    uname='linux n4.mandriva.com 2.6.12-12mdksmp #1 smp fri sep 9 17:43:23 cest 2005 i686 intel(r) xeon(tm) cpu 2.80ghz gnulinux '
    config_args='-des -Dinc_version_list=5.8.7 5.8.7/i386-linux 5.8.6 5.8.6/i386-linux 5.8.5 5.8.4 5.8.3 5.8.2 5.8.1 5.8.0 5.6.1 5.6.0 -Darchname=i386-linux -Dcc=gcc -Doptimize=-O2  -pipe -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fomit-frame-pointer -march=i586 -mtune=pentiumpro -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -Dprefix=/usr -Dvendorprefix=/usr -Dsiteprefix=/usr -Dsitebin=/usr/local/bin -Dsiteman1dir=/usr/local/share/man/man1 -Dsiteman3dir=/usr/local/share/man/man3 -Dman3ext=3pm -Dcf_by=Mandriva -Dmyhostname=localhost -Dperladmin=root@localhost -Dcf_email=root@localhost -Dd_dosuid -Ud_csh -Duseshrplib'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=define usemultiplicity=undef
    useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
    use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
    usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='gcc', ccflags ='-fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -Wdeclaration-after-statement -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/include/gdbm',
    optimize='-O2 -pipe -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fomit-frame-pointer -march=i586 -mtune=pentiumpro -fasynchronous-unwind-tables',
    cppflags='-fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -Wdeclaration-after-statement -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include/gdbm'
    ccversion='', gccversion='4.1.1 20060724 (prerelease) (4.1.1-3mdk)', gccosandvers=''
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
    ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=4, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='gcc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
    libs=-lnsl -lndbm -lgdbm -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc
    perllibs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc
    libc=/lib/libc-2.4.so, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so
    gnulibc_version='2.4'
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-Wl,-E -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux/CORE'
    cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib'


Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
  Compile-time options: PERL_MALLOC_WRAP USE_LARGE_FILES USE_PERLIO
  Locally applied patches:
        Mandriva Linux patches
  Built under linux
  Compiled at Sep  8 2006 20:02:03
  @INC:
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
    /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux
    /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8
    /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.7
    /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.7/i386-linux
    /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6
    /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5
    /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl
    .