On Tue, Nov 18, 2025 at 08:12:41PM +0000, Gavin Smith wrote: > I don't see the problem with having -lperl in all link commands. I imagine > the ldflags value from perl -V would be used in addition to any user-provided > PERL_EXT_LDFLAGS.
Maybe this is indeed not an issue. I will try and see if it works. > I understand you wanted part of the C code to be "Perl free" but texi2any > is still a Perl program and will be for the foreseeable future. The code can be made Perl free, as shown by teximakehtml, but it lacks important features, not to mention many converters. Some Perl features/codes are still needed and may be for some time, I have no problem with texi2any not being Perl free. The issue is that Perl C and gnulib/autoconf C are incompatible at the source level. That is why I am wary of mixing the flags and would like to have some separation at the flags level too. -- Pat
