Bug#752354: perl: trivial test C program fails to compile

[Russ Allbery]

Damyan Ivanov <dmn at debian.org> writes:

> Perhaps. But I think the fix is not in perl but in xchat-gnome.

> It seems PL_memory_wrap and Perl_croak_nocontext were moved to libperl 
> in 5.20, so the test library needs to link with that. Adding
>  $(perl -MExtUtils::Embed -e ldopts)
> to the compiler flags makes it pass. And xchat-gnome configuration 
> looks like this:

>  checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
>  checking for Perl header files... found
>  checking for Perl library... found
>  …
>  checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
>  checking for perl >= 5.8.1... 5.20.0
>  checking for XML::Parser... ok
>  …
>  checking which plugins to build...  autoaway notification url_scraper 
>  sound-notification net-monitor notify-osd perl python tcl
>  …
>  config.status: creating plugins/perl/Makefile

> Attached is the patch to xchat-gnome.

> Not yet reassigning to allow a sanity check on my conclusions :)

Your patch looks correct to me.  It looks like this Autoconf probe was
relying on those functions being implemented as macros?  I'm not sure how
the probe program could otherwise be successfully linked without including
the linker options.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>