Re: texinfo-6.0.91 pretest

[Ken Brown]

On 1/2/2016 8:53 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> > From: Ken Brown <address@hidden>
> > Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2016 08:31:26 -0500
> >
> > > > -XSParagraph_la_LDFLAGS=-no-undefined -avoid-version -module 
> > > > $(PERL_CONF_cccdlflags)
> > > > +XSParagraph_la_LDFLAGS=-no-undefined -avoid-version -module 
> > > > $(PERL_CONF_cccdlflags) -L$(PERL_INC) -lperl
> > >
> > > I don't think it's correct to use literally "-L$(PERL_INC) -lperl",
> > > although it might be in many installations.  The correct values should
> > > obtained from "perl -V:<variable>", and I already provided the
> > > variables that should be used here.  E.g., if the user has Active Perl
> > > installed, like I do, the "-lperl" part should be replaced with
> > > "-lperl520" (for Perl 5.20.X).
> >
> > On Cygwin, "perl -V:libperl" returns "libperl='cygperl5_22.dll';", but
> > you wouldn't guess from this that you should use "-lperl" for linking
> > (i.e., the actual import library is libperl.dll.a).
>
> That's an unfortunate choice by the Cygwin Perl maintainers, I'd say.
> Why isn't the import library named libcygperl.dll.a or something
> similar?

This is not specific to Perl.  It is the standard way import libraries 
are named on Cygwin  Typically, for a shared library foo, the DLL is 
cygfoo.dll (possibly with a version number), and the import library is 
libfoo.dll.a.  The linker knows how to interpret "-lfoo" accordingly.

Ken