Hi, I've just completed a good build with AIX 4.3.2.0 using gcc 2.95.1 There were some problems with the hints and I needed to add -lmssa in order to get the math functions to work I've still got the build dir intact so if I can send you anything to help let me know Thanks, Bob French UNIX system manager US Diagnostics Inc bfrench@usdl.com The output from myconfig..... Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 5 subversion 2) configuration: Platform: osname=aix, osvers=4.3.2.0, archname=aix uname='aix u-sewpbcbo-vis2 3 4 00059247a100 ' hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define usethreads=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef Compiler: cc='gcc', optimize='-O', gccversion=2.95.1 19990816 (release) cppflags='-D_ALL_SOURCE -D_ANSI_C_SOURCE -D_POSIX_SOURCE -I/usr/local/include' ccflags ='-D_ALL_SOURCE -D_ANSI_C_SOURCE -D_POSIX_SOURCE -I/usr/local/include' stdchar='unsigned char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=false intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8 d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=8 alignbytes=8, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='ld', ldflags ='' libpth=/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-ibm-aix4.3.2.0/2.95.1 libs= libc=, so=a, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_none.xs, dlext=none, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='' cccdlflags='', lddlflags=''