> Could you send the output from running the ./myconfig script? > It should say what version your glibc is, which is probably more important > than the kernel version.
You're probably right abaut the kernel version ;-) Here's the output: Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 8 subversion 2) configuration: Platform: osname=linux, osvers=2.4.22, archname=i686-linux-thread-multi uname='linux p10079192 2.4.22 #1 wed oct 29 18:52:53 cet 2003 i686 unknown ' config_args='-Dusethreads -Dcc=/opt/gcc-3.3.2/bin/gcc' hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define usethreads=define use5005threads=undef useithreads=define usemultiplicity=define useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef Compiler: cc='/opt/gcc-3.3.2/bin/gcc', ccflags ='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DTHREADS_HAVE_PIDS -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr /local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64', optimize='-O3', cppflags='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DTHREADS_HAVE_PIDS -fno-strict-aliasin g -I/usr/local/include' ccversion='', gccversion='3.3.2', 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='/opt/gcc-3.3.2/bin/gcc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib' libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib libs=-lbind -lnsl -lndbm -lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lpthread -lc perllibs=-lbind -lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lpthread -lc libc=, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a gnulibc_version='2.2.2' Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-rdynamic' cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib' > Can you build perl OK if you don't Configure for threads? Tried it without threads, too... Sadly it was all the same... Jens