I was unable to build from Texinfo git master. There is an error about
missing -lperl:
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/g/src/texinfo/GIT/tp/Texinfo/XS'
/bin/bash ./libtool --tag=CC --mode=link x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc
-version-info 0:0:0 -Wl,-E -o libtexinfo-main.la -rpath
/usr/local/lib/texi2any convert/libtexinfo_main_la-texinfo.lo libtexinfoxs.la
libtexinfo.la libtexinfo-convert.la libperlembed_libtexinfo_main.la
./gnulib/lib/libgnu.la -Wl,-E -fstack-protector-strong -L/usr/local/lib
-L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.34/CORE -lperl -ldl -lm -lpthread -lc
-lcrypt
libtool: link: x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -shared -fPIC -DPIC
convert/.libs/libtexinfo_main_la-texinfo.o -Wl,--whole-archive
./.libs/libperlembed_libtexinfo_main.a ./gnulib/lib/.libs/libgnu.a
-Wl,--no-whole-archive -Wl,-rpath
-Wl,/home/g/src/texinfo/GIT/tp/Texinfo/XS/.libs -Wl,-rpath
-Wl,/usr/local/lib/texi2any -L/home/g/src/texinfo/GIT/tp/Texinfo/XS/.libs
./.libs/libtexinfoxs.so ./.libs/libtexinfo.so ./.libs/libtexinfo-convert.so
/home/g/src/texinfo/GIT/tp/Texinfo/XS/.libs/libtexinfoxs.so
/home/g/src/texinfo/GIT/tp/Texinfo/XS/.libs/libtexinfo.so -L/usr/local/lib
-L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.34/CORE -lperl -ldl -lm -lpthread -lc
-lcrypt -Wl,-E -Wl,-E -fstack-protector-strong -Wl,-soname
-Wl,libtexinfo-main.so.0 -o .libs/libtexinfo-main.so.0.0.0
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lperl: No such file or directory
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [Makefile:2953: libtexinfo-main.la] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/g/src/texinfo/GIT/tp/Texinfo/XS'
I do have a libperl.so.5.34 file, but it is installed as
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libperl.so.5.34.0.
I wondered if it was something to do with my Perl installation. Indeed:
$ perl -V | grep embed
DEBPKG:debian/libperl_embed_doc - https://bugs.debian.org/186778 Note that
libperl-dev package is required for embedded linking
(That referenced Debian bug dates to 2003, although it is marked as closed.)
I did not have the "libperl-dev" package installed. Installing this
(about 10 MB of extra disk space), and trying again, it compiled.
Before I worked this out, I found that I could not link to the libperl.so
file even when I gave the -L path explicitly.
x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -shared -fPIC -DPIC
convert/.libs/libtexinfo_main_la-texinfo.o -Wl,--whole-archive
./.libs/libperlembed_libtexinfo_main.a ./gnulib/lib/.libs/libgnu.a
-Wl,--no-whole-archive -Wl,-rpath
-Wl,/home/g/src/texinfo/GIT/tp/Texinfo/XS/.libs -Wl,-rpath
-Wl,/usr/local/lib/texi2any -L/home/g/src/texinfo/GIT/tp/Texinfo/XS/.libs
./.libs/libtexinfoxs.so ./.libs/libtexinfo.so ./.libs/libtexinfo-convert.so
/home/g/src/texinfo/GIT/tp/Texinfo/XS/.libs/libtexinfoxs.so
/home/g/src/texinfo/GIT/tp/Texinfo/XS/.libs/libtexinfo.so -L/usr/local/lib
-L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu -lperl -ldl -lm -lpthread -lc -lcrypt -Wl,-E
-Wl,-E -fstack-protector-strong -Wl,-soname -Wl,libtexinfo-main.so.0 -o
.libs/libtexinfo-main.so.0.0.0
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lperl: No such file or directory
So I don't know what is going on with this libperl and why it is not being
found.
