Re: [platform-testers] texinfo-6.5.90 pretest

[Bruno Haible]

On Ubuntu 16.04, with package libperl5.22 installed but
package libperl-dev *not* installed:

configure succeeds, printing

checking Perl configuration value ccflags... -D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE 
-DDEBIAN -fwrapv -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include 
-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
checking Perl configuration value cccdlflags... -fPIC
checking Perl configuration value ccdlflags... -Wl,-E
checking Perl configuration value libperl... libperl.so.5.22
checking Perl configuration value archlibexp... 
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.22
checking Perl configuration value privlibexp... /usr/share/perl/5.22
...
checking whether we can build Perl extension (XS) modules... yes

But the build fails:

libtool: link: x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -shared  -fPIC -DPIC  
.libs/Parsetexi_la-Parsetexi.o .libs/Parsetexi_la-api.o 
.libs/Parsetexi_la-parser.o .libs/Parsetexi_la-element_types.o 
.libs/Parsetexi_la-commands.o .libs/Parsetexi_la-input.o 
.libs/Parsetexi_la-tree.o .libs/Parsetexi_la-close.o .libs/Parsetexi_la-text.o 
.libs/Parsetexi_la-context_stack.o .libs/Parsetexi_la-debug.o 
.libs/Parsetexi_la-convert.o .libs/Parsetexi_la-end_line.o 
.libs/Parsetexi_la-separator.o .libs/Parsetexi_la-multitable.o 
.libs/Parsetexi_la-indices.o .libs/Parsetexi_la-macro.o 
.libs/Parsetexi_la-handle_commands.o .libs/Parsetexi_la-def.o 
.libs/Parsetexi_la-extra.o .libs/Parsetexi_la-menus.o 
.libs/Parsetexi_la-labels.o .libs/Parsetexi_la-errors.o 
.libs/Parsetexi_la-counter.o  -Wl,--whole-archive ../gnulib/lib/.libs/libgnu.a 
-Wl,--no-whole-archive  -L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.22/CORE -lperl 
-L/media/develdata/devel/inst-x86_64-64/lib  -Wl,-E   -Wl,-soname 
-Wl,Parsetexi.so -o .libs/Parsetexi.so
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lperl
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
Makefile:889: die Regel für Ziel „Parsetexi.la“ scheiterte
make[6]: *** [Parsetexi.la] Fehler 1

After installing package libperl-dev [1], the build proceeds fine.

[1] https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/amd64/libperl-dev/filelist