Hello, My first guess is that you have only built a static libperl library, and we build shared libraries, which is not possible against a static libperl library. It could also be possible that linking against a static library works when doing a shared library, but only if the executables inside the static library have been compiled with -fPIC.
There could be an error now, while there was no error before because now we use the flags corresponding to compilation and linking against Perl for all the libraries/files. However, a similar error should have appeared before when compiling/linking the ctexi2any executable. Did you manage to compile/link before in the same or similar setting? On Sat, Jan 10, 2026 at 02:55:33PM -0500, Carl Hansen wrote: > > gcc 16 > > make[4]: Entering directory > '/home/carl/build/gsrc/pkg/gnu/texinfo/work/texinfo-7.2.90-build/tta/C' > make all-am > make[5]: Entering directory > '/home/carl/build/gsrc/pkg/gnu/texinfo/work/texinfo-7.2.90-build/tta/C' > /bin/bash ../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link cc -fwrapv -fno-strict-aliasing > -pipe -fstack-protector-strong -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE > -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fPIC -version-info 0:0:0 -Wl,-E > -fstack-protector-strong -L/usr/local/lib -o libtexinfo-main.la -rpath > /opt/gsrc/lib/texi2any swig/libtexinfo_main_la-swig_interface.lo > swig/libtexinfo_main_la-swig_parser_api.lo > convert/libtexinfo_main_la-texinfo.lo libtexinfoxs.la libtexinfo.la > libtexinfo-convert.la libperlembed_libtexinfo_main.la ../gnulib/lib/libgnu.la > -Wl,-E -fstack-protector-strong -L/usr/local/lib > -L/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.42.0/x86_64-linux/CORE -lperl -lpthread -ldl -lm > -lcrypt -lutil -lc > libtool: link: cc -shared -fPIC -DPIC > swig/.libs/libtexinfo_main_la-swig_interface.o > swig/.libs/libtexinfo_main_la-swig_parser_api.o > convert/.libs/libtexinfo_main_la-texinfo.o -Wl,--whole-archive > ./.libs/libperlembed_libtexinfo_main.a ../gnulib/lib/.libs/libgnu.a > -Wl,--no-whole-archive -Wl,-rpath > -Wl,/home/carl/build/gsrc/pkg/gnu/texinfo/work/texinfo-7.2.90-build/tta/C/.libs > -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/opt/gsrc/lib/texi2any > -L/home/carl/build/gsrc/pkg/gnu/texinfo/work/texinfo-7.2.90-build/tta/C/.libs > -L/usr/local/lib ./.libs/libtexinfoxs.so -L/opt/gsrc/lib > ./.libs/libtexinfo.so ./.libs/libtexinfo-convert.so > /home/carl/build/gsrc/pkg/gnu/texinfo/work/texinfo-7.2.90-build/tta/C/.libs/libtexinfoxs.so > > /home/carl/build/gsrc/pkg/gnu/texinfo/work/texinfo-7.2.90-build/tta/C/.libs/libtexinfo.so > -L/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.42.0/x86_64-linux/CORE > /opt/gsrc/lib/libunistring.so -lperl -lpthread -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc > -fstack-protector-strong -Wl,-E -fstack-protector-strong -Wl,-E > -fstack-protector-strong -Wl,-soname -Wl,libtexinfo-main.so.0 -o > .libs/libtexinfo-main.so.0.0.0 > /opt/gsrc/bin/ld: > /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.42.0/x86_64-linux/CORE/libperl.a(op.o): warning: > relocation against `PL_modcount' in read-only section `.text' > /opt/gsrc/bin/ld: > /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.42.0/x86_64-linux/CORE/libperl.a(op.o): relocation > R_X86_64_PC32 against symbol `PL_compcv' can not be used when making a shared > object; recompile with -fPIC > /opt/gsrc/bin/ld: final link failed: bad value > collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status > make[5]: *** [Makefile:2998: libtexinfo-main.la] Error 1 > make[5]: Leaving directory > '/home/carl/build/gsrc/pkg/gnu/texinfo/work/texinfo-7.2.90-build/tta/C' > make[4]: *** [Makefile:2748: all] Error 2 > make[4]: Leaving directory > '/home/carl/build/gsrc/pkg/gnu/texinfo/work/texinfo-7.2.90-build/tta/C' > make[3]: *** [Makefile:1875: all-recursive] Error 1 > make[3]: Leaving directory > '/home/carl/build/gsrc/pkg/gnu/texinfo/work/texinfo-7.2.90-build/tta' > make[2]: *** [Makefile:2005: all-recursive] Error 1 > make[2]: Leaving directory > '/home/carl/build/gsrc/pkg/gnu/texinfo/work/texinfo-7.2.90-build' > make[1]: *** [Makefile:1944: all] Error 2 > make[1]: Leaving directory > '/home/carl/build/gsrc/pkg/gnu/texinfo/work/texinfo-7.2.90-build' > [build] Build failed. Exiting. > make: *** [../../../gar/gar.lib.mk:642: > build-work/texinfo-7.2.90-build/Makefile] Error 1 > > > > > > > > >
