On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 11:18:33AM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > From: Gavin Smith <[email protected]> > > Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2017 08:57:12 +0100 > > Cc: [email protected] > > > > > 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.
