Re: [platform-testers] texinfo-6.5.90 pretest

[Gavin Smith]

On 1/4/19, Bruno Haible <address@hidden> 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.