Bart Van Assche <bvanass...@acm.org>:
> On 03/21/18 19:47, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> >>From 2ffbdd9e8f15eb3e3dc985ab3aa0a12d798e4b78 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> >From: "Eric S. Raymond" <e...@thyrsus.com>
> >Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 20:24:40 -0400
> >Subject: [PATCH] INSTALL: Fix for build instructions.
> >
> >Mention a prerequisite that will trip people up under Ubuntu.
> >---
> >  INSTALL | 3 ++-
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> >diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
> >index 24f8d6c..aad9099 100644
> >--- a/INSTALL
> >+++ b/INSTALL
> >@@ -27,7 +27,8 @@ QUICK INSTRUCTIONS
> >       (due to prompting done by the configure script, this is very rarely
> >        necessary.)
> >-  3) make
> >+  3) Run make.  If the build fails with a complaint that it can't resolve
> >+     -lperl, install libperl-dev and try again.
> >    4) Run the next command as root:
> >    5) make install
> 
> This should be elaborated further: another alternative is to pass
> --disable-embedded-perl to the configure script.

I actually tried that before installing libperl-dev. It didn't seem to work.

Or possibly it might have but your build system messed me over.  I don't trust
autoconf as far as I can throw it.
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