Hi,
On 2022-08-22 16:31:53 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> 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.
There definitely are - I wasn't trying to suggest we'd add -lperl ourselves,
just that we'd try to only add -lperl* based on some Config variable.
We have plenty fragile windows specific logic that would be nice to get rid
of. But there's more exciting things to wrangle, I have to admit.
Greetings,
Andres Freund