On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 01:59:57PM -0500, Reini Urban wrote: > Doesn't solaris with their cc/CC also requires 16? Since Configure doesn't set multiarch on Solaris, the probe for alignbytes isn't bypassed and is set to the correct value: tony@solaris1164:~/dev/perl/git/perl$ grep 'config_args\|nvtype\|alignbytes' config.sh config_args='-des -Dusedevel -Duse64bitall -Duselongdouble' alignbytes='16' nvtype='long double' tony@solaris1164:~/dev/perl/git/perl$ uname -a SunOS solaris1164 5.11 snv_151a i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris tony@solaris1164:~/dev/perl/git/perl$ cc -V cc: Sun C 5.11 SunOS_i386 2010/08/13 usage: cc [ options ] files. Use 'cc -flags' for details Tony