I'm testing it now on my SunOS solaris 5.11 11.0 i86pc i386 i86pc 64-bit vm. I never tried 64-bit there, only building 32-bit regularly with sun cc and gcc. Those work fine - but all 32bit: /usr/local/bin/perl5.15.6d-nt /usr/local/bin/perl5.15.4d-nt /usr/local/bin/perl5.15.4d-nt-gcc /usr/local/bin/perl5.15.4d-nt@36df1ff0 /usr/local/bin/perl5.14.2d-gcc /usr/local/bin/perl5.14.2d-nt /usr/local/bin/perl5.14.2d-nt-gcc /usr/local/bin/perl5.12.3-nt /usr/local/bin/perl5.12.3d-gcc So far I've got for 64-bit LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/share/src/perl/build- 5.15.6d@b79fac8f ./perl -f -Ilib pod/buildtoc -q ld.so.1: perl: fatal: relocation error: R_AMD64_PC32: file /usr/share/src/perl/build-5.15.6d@b79fac8f/libperl.so: symbol main: value 0x280024ea8b8 does not fit If I don't find anything we'd need a perl -V from your solaris box, because you perlbug'ed it from ubuntu. -- Reini Urban