On 20.08.22 22:44, Andres Freund wrote:
> Maybe a daft question: Why do want any of the -l flags other than -lperl? With
> the patch configure spits out the following on my debian system:
>
> checking for CFLAGS to compile embedded Perl... -DDEBIAN
> checking for flags to link embedded Perl... -L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.34/CORE -lperl -ldl -lm -lpthread
-lc-lcrypt
>
> those libraries were likely relevant to build libperl, but don't look relevant
> for linking to it dynamically. Statically would be a different story, but we
> already insist on a shared build.
Looking inside the ExtUtils::Embed source code, I wonder if there are
some installations that have things like -lperl538 or something like
that that it wants to deal with.