Re: PL/perl should fail on configure, not make

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> On 01/09/2013 10:16 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Actually, if we were to try to clean this up, I'd suggest moving that
>> logic into the configure script --- it's not apparent to me why it's
>> a good idea to be changing configure-determined values in the Makefile.
>> But in any case this would have to be done by somebody who's in a
>> position to test on affected platforms.

> Here's a patch which does that and produces configure traces like this 
> on Mingw:

>     checking for Perl archlibexp... C:/Perl/lib
>     checking for Perl privlibexp... C:/Perl/lib
>     checking for Perl useshrplib... true
>     checking for flags to link embedded Perl... -LC:/Perl/lib/CORE -lperl512

> which seems to be what we want.

> Given that, you should be able to write a reasonably portable configure 
> test for library presence.

Looks good.  If you're happy with that then I can undertake to add a
libperl.so probe based on AC_TRY_LINK with the unmodified value of
$perl_embed_ldflags.
        regards, tom lane