Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> writes:
> 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.
I'm certain that there are/were platforms that insist on those libraries
being mentioned anyway. Maybe they are all obsolete now?
regards, tom lane
