On 12 Jan 2022 at 02:52p, Alan Ianson pondered and said...
 
 AI> Does ./binkd -vv mention perl at this point on a fresh make?

No, sadly not. Something is not being picked up.

 AI> I am fresh out of ideas but I am going to go over the output of my
 AI> ./configure --with-perl and comapre it with yours and see if I can spot
 AI> any differences.

OK thanks :)

 AI> I'm just guessing here but I wonder if "apt-get install build-essential"
 AI> will install any missing deps?

avon@orac:/hub/temp/binkd2/binkd$ sudo apt-get install build-essential 
[sudo] password for avon: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
build-essential is already the newest version (12.6).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 33 not upgraded.


Seems all is fine there too.

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