Linking with Perl

[Akim Demaille]

I'm sorry, but I'm bad at dynamic libs and libtool etc., so I'm
somewhat stuck here:

make[2]: Entering directory `/home/akim/src/m4/modules'
/bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link gcc  -O2 -pipe -no-undefined -o perl.la -rpath 
/usr/local/libexec/m4 -module `perl -MExtUtils::Embed -e ldopts` perl.lo  
../m4/libm4.la

*** Warning: Linking the shared library perl.la against the
*** static library /usr/lib/perl/5.6.1/auto/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.a is not 
portable!
rm -fr .libs/perl.la .libs/perl.* .libs/perl.*
gcc -shared  perl.lo  -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/home/lrde/prof/akim/src/m4/m4/.libs 
-Wl,--rpath -Wl,/usr/local/lib  -L/usr/local/lib 
/usr/lib/perl/5.6.1/auto/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.a -L/usr/lib/perl/5.6.1/CORE 
-lperl -ldl -lm -lc -lcrypt ../m4/.libs/libm4.so   -Wl,-soname -Wl,perl.so.0 -o 
.libs/perl.so.0.0.0
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lperl
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [perl.la] Erreur 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/akim/src/m4/modules'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Erreur 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/akim/src/m4'
make: *** [all-recursive-am] Erreur 2
~/src/m4 % perl -MExtUtils::Embed -e ldopts                      nostromo Err 2
-rdynamic  -L/usr/local/lib /usr/lib/perl/5.6.1/auto/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.a 
-L/usr/lib/perl/5.6.1/CORE -lperl -ldl -lm -lc -lcrypt


I don't know what I could do to help.  I do have libperl:

~/src/m4 % ls /usr/lib/libperl* -l                               nostromo 12:06
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           16 jun 28 17:50 /usr/lib/libperl.so.5.6 
-> libperl.so.5.6.1
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       798264 jun 22 11:04 
/usr/lib/libperl.so.5.6.1


I'm running Debian unstable.  At home I have Debian stable, and it
works.

BTW, this demonstrates that if someone wants to install M4 but does
not have Perl, she is doomed.  That's not cool :)