On Mon, Jul 21, 2025 at 11:05:24PM +0200, Bruno Haible via Bug reports for the GNU Texinfo documentation system wrote: > The CI reports a link error on Ubuntu (both when compiling natively and > when cross-compiling for RISCV), that was not present last week: > > /bin/bash ../../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc > -module -o _Texinfo.la -rpath /usr/local/lib/python3.10/site-packages > _Texinfo_la-python_texinfo_wrap.lo ../../C/libtexinfo.la > ../../C/libtexinfo-main.la -L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.34/CORE -lperl > -ldl -lm -lpthread -lc -lcrypt > libtool: link: x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -shared -fPIC -DPIC > .libs/_Texinfo_la-python_texinfo_wrap.o -Wl,-rpath > -Wl,/home/runner/work/ci-check/ci-check/texinfo-7.2.20250721dev/build/tta/C/.libs > -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/usr/local/lib/texi2any ../../C/.libs/libtexinfo.so > ../../C/.libs/libtexinfo-main.so -L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.34/CORE > -lperl -ldl -lm -lpthread -lc -lcrypt -Wl,-soname -Wl,_Texinfo.so.0 -o > .libs/_Texinfo.so.0.0.0 > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lperl: No such file or directory > collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status > make[5]: *** [Makefile:1814: _Texinfo.la] Error 1 > make[5]: Leaving directory > '/home/runner/work/ci-check/ci-check/texinfo-7.2.20250721dev/build/tta/swig/python' > make[4]: *** [Makefile:1736: all-recursive] Error 1 > make[4]: Leaving directory > '/home/runner/work/ci-check/ci-check/texinfo-7.2.20250721dev/build/tta/swig' > make[3]: *** [Makefile:1690: all] Error 2 > make[3]: Leaving directory > '/home/runner/work/ci-check/ci-check/texinfo-7.2.20250721dev/build/tta/swig' > make[2]: *** [Makefile:1856: all-recursive] Error 1 > make[2]: Leaving directory > '/home/runner/work/ci-check/ci-check/texinfo-7.2.20250721dev/build/tta' > make[1]: *** [Makefile:1948: all-recursive] Error 1 > make[1]: Leaving directory > '/home/runner/work/ci-check/ci-check/texinfo-7.2.20250721dev/build' > make: *** [Makefile:1887: all] Error 2 > > Is the mandatory dependency on libperl intended? > > Bruno
It shouldn't depend on libperl. As far as I understand, libperl can come in two ways (Patrice could confirm this). The first is when building the C implementation of texi2any (known as ctexi2any), but this is not used by default, because of this dependency which is often not present. The second is as a result of the SWIG stuff, which looks like is happening here. I have not looked into what is being done with SWIG, but hopefully if you reconfigure with "./configure --without-swig", some of the SWIG parts of the build will be omitted and this error won't occur.
