Bug#962319: libextutils-hascompiler-perl: test failures perl 5.30.3-2

[Niko Tyni]

On Sat, Jun 06, 2020 at 10:28:49AM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> Package: libextutils-hascompiler-perl
> Version: 0.021-2
> Severity: serious
> 
> This package fails its test suite with perl 5.30.3-2 from unstable.

> With perl 5.30.3-2, #798626 is fixed and $Config{useshrplib} now
> correctly indicates that static linking is supported. However, the
> ExtUtils::HasCompiler check does not actually link, so it fails to detect
> that libperl.a is missing.  ExtUtils::MakeMaker still fails in the same
> way, so the results now disagree.

I reinstated $Config{useshrplib}='true' for perl 5.30.3-4 because other
projects were checking that to find out whether a shared libperl is
available.

So the fix I made in libextutils-hascompiler-perl to close this bug is
no longer necessary. However, I still think it's the right thing to do
- given we support static builds, it's good for ExtUtils::HasCompiler
to signal that. So I'm not reverting it unless we find out it causes
problems.
-- 
Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org