> This is just a note to let you know about a strange situation that I've > encountered. Using gcc 2.95.1 on Solaris 7, compiling back-ldbm with > "-g -O2" causes a segfault at runtime when initializing libperl.so. The It would be interesting to know if you are building a 64-bit or 32-bit binary, and whether libperl.so is 64- or 32-bit. Have you tried 2.95.2? Lots of optimization fixes in .2 ~f