Re: texinfo-6.3.90 pretest

[Gavin Smith]

On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 11:18:33AM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Gavin Smith <address@hidden>
> > Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2017 08:57:12 +0100
> > Cc: address@hidden
> > 
> > > I cannote figure out why it reaches this conclusion: the TestXS module
> > > is built successfully.  How can I find out why the detection fails?
> > 
> > You could try going into the tp/Texinfo/Convert/XSParagraph subdirectory
> > and running
> > 
> > TEXINFO_XS=debug ${PERL} -I ../../../ -I . fail.pl
> > 
> > where ${PERL} is the path to your Perl executable.
> 
> Thanks, will do.
> 
> When the equivalent command runs as part of the configure script,
> which Perl is invoked here?  Is it the one specified with PERL= when
> the configure script was invoked, or is it the one found on PATH?  It
> should be the former.

It should indeed be the former. The PERL variable is used for this on
line 395 of configure.ac.