Ran into an issue and a resolution that others may benefit from. HPUX 11.23 Oracle 10gr2 DBD:Oracle 1.21 perl -V Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 8) configuration: Platform: osname=hpux, osvers=11.22, archname=IA64.ARCHREV_0-thread-multi ... ISSUE: during make linker failed with unrecognized argument ld: -Wl,+b/u01/oracle/product/10.2/.... RESOLUTION: edit Makefile.PL change $m =~ s/LD_RUN_PATH=(\S+)\s+(\S+)/$2 -Wl,+b$1/; to $m =~ "s/LD_RUN_PATH=(\S+)\s+(\S+)/$2 -Wl,+b $1/";