You can "Configure -Dusemorebits" to turn on both the 64-bit support
and the long double support.
+Note that on some platforms (linux 2.2.14 (RedHat 6.2, x86), libc 2.1.3)
+the gcc 3.1 compiler has been reported to refuse to compile the
+Time::Hires module when using -Dusemorebits or an equivalent setting.
+
=head2 Selecting File IO mechanisms
Executive summary: in Perl 5.8, you should use the default "PerlIO"
=item Porting information
-Specific information for the OS/2, Plan9, VMS and Win32 ports is in the
+Specific information for the OS/2, Plan 9, VMS and Win32 ports is in the
corresponding README files and subdirectories. Additional information,
including a glossary of all those config.sh variables, is in the Porting
subdirectory. Especially Porting/Glossary should come in handy.