Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> What about the MakeMaker dependency?
> The call to ldopts will fail if MakeMaker is not present, so this will
> cover it. It's very unlikely to be absent - it's required to build
> almost every Perl module known to man.
I see. I think then the error message should read something like
AC_MSG_ERROR([could not determine flags for linking embedded Perl
This probably means that ExtUtils::Embed or ExtUtils::MakeMaker is not
installed.])
Otherwise, looks good.
regards, tom lane