On 12 Jan 2022 at 01:24p, Alan Ianson pondered and said...
 
 AI> Perl is not mentioned in the compilation flags. I suspect the perl-dev
 AI> package is or was missing when you ran make, maybe?

Yes I noticed that also and yet I'm including the switch when I run the compile.

I checked on that package you mentioned.

 AI> Looking over at my debian setup the package name is libperl-dev. Maybe
 AI> try looking for that? I'm not sure of your distro but these packages can
 AI> have different names from disto to distro.

avon@orac:~$ sudo apt-get install libperl-dev
[sudo] password for avon: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
libperl-dev is already the newest version (5.28.1-6+deb10u1).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 33 not upgraded.

Hmm

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