On 1/4/19, Bruno Haible <[email protected]> wrote: > On Ubuntu 16.04, with package libperl5.22 installed but > package libperl-dev *not* installed: > > configure succeeds, printing
> But the build fails: > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lperl Thanks for testing it. I suspect that it is not necessary for -lperl to be passed (except maybe on Microsoft Windows). In tp/Texinfo/XS/Makefile.am passing -lperl was conditional but under tp/Texinfo/XS/parsetexi/Makefile.am it was unconditional. I am working on using the same Makefile.am for both to resolve this discrepancy.
