Re: texinfo-6.0.91 pretest

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> From: Ken Brown <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 17:15:35 -0500
> 
> > I think the Windows ports will have to use PERL_EXT_LDFLAGS when
> > configuring Texinfo.
> 
> I tested this on Cygwin by doing
> 
>     ./configure PERL_EXT_LDFLAGS='-L$(PERL_INC) -lperl'
> 
> and it worked.  Is this what you meant?

Yes.

> Or is there a way to set PERL_EXT_LDFLAGS on Cygwin by putting
> appropriate statements in configure.ac and/or Makefile.am?

You mean, by special-casing Cygwin and using these fixed flags?  It
should also be possible, although I'm not sure how necessary that
would be.