Re: texinfo-7.2.90 on Solaris 11.4

Likewise on Solaris 11.4:

$ gmake
...
gmake[4]: Entering directory '/export/home/bruno/texinfo-7.2.90/build-64/tta/C'
/bin/sh ../libtool  --tag=CC   --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../../tta/C  -I../../../tta/C/main -I../../../tta/C -DDATADIR=\"/export/home/bruno/prefix64/share\" -DSYSCONFDIR=\"/export/home/bruno/prefix64/etc\" -I../../../tta/gnulib/lib -I../gnulib/lib -I/export/home/bruno/prefix64/include -Wall -D_REENTRANT -D_REENTRANT -m64 -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -KPIC -g -O2 -MT main/libperlcall_utils_la-xs_utils.lo -MD -MP -MF main/.deps/libperlcall_utils_la-xs_utils.Tpo -c -o main/libperlcall_utils_la-xs_utils.lo `test -f 'main/xs_utils.c' || echo '../../../tta/C/'`main/xs_utils.c
libtool: compile:  gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../../tta/C -I../../../tta/C/main -I../../../tta/C "-DDATADIR=\"/export/home/bruno/prefix64/share\"" "-DSYSCONFDIR=\"/export/home/bruno/prefix64/etc\"" -I../../../tta/gnulib/lib -I../gnulib/lib -I/export/home/bruno/prefix64/include -Wall -D_REENTRANT -D_REENTRANT -m64 -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -KPIC -g -O2 -MT main/libperlcall_utils_la-xs_utils.lo -MD -MP -MF main/.deps/libperlcall_utils_la-xs_utils.Tpo -c ../../../tta/C/main/xs_utils.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o main/.libs/libperlcall_utils_la-xs_utils.o
gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-KPIC’; did you mean ‘-fPIC’?
gmake[4]: *** [Makefile:3600: main/libperlcall_utils_la-xs_utils.lo] Error 1
gmake[4]: Leaving directory '/export/home/bruno/texinfo-7.2.90/build-64/tta/C'
gmake[3]: *** [Makefile:2748: all] Error 2

$ perl -V
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 22 subversion 1) configuration:
   
  Platform:
    osname=solaris, osvers=2.11, archname=i86pc-solaris-thread-multi-64
    uname='sunos localhost 5.11 i86pc i386 i86pc'
    config_args='-de -Dmksymlinks -Ulocincpth= -Dbin=/usr/perl5/5.22/bin -Dcc=cc -Dcf_by=perl-bugs -Dlibperl=libperl.so -Dmyhostname=localhost -Dperl_static_inline=static -Dprefix=/usr/perl5/5.22 -Dprivlib=/usr/perl5/5.22/lib -Dsitelib=/usr/perl5/site_perl/5.22 -Dsiteprefix=/usr/perl5/5.22 -Dvendorlib=/usr/perl5/vendor_perl/5.22 -Dvendorprefix=/usr/perl5/5.22 -Duseshrplib -Dusedtrace -Duse64bitall -Dusethreads -Dlibpth=/lib/64 /usr/lib/64 -Dusesitecustomize -Doptimize=-xO4      '
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    useithreads=define, usemultiplicity=define
    use64bitint=define, use64bitall=define, uselongdouble=undef
    usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', ccflags ='-D_REENTRANT -m64 -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV',
    optimize='-xO4 ',
    cppflags='-D_REENTRANT -m64'
    ccversion='Sun C 5.13 SunOS_i386 Patch 151633-09 2018/01/10', gccversion='', gccosandvers=''
    intsize=4, longsize=8, ptrsize=8, doublesize=8, byteorder=12345678, doublekind=3
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16, longdblkind=3
    ivtype='long', ivsize=8, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=8, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags =' -m64 -L/lib/64 '
    libpth=/lib/64 /usr/lib/64
    libs=-lpthread -lsocket -lnsl -lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lc
    perllibs=-lpthread -lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lc
    libc=/lib/libc.so, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so
    gnulibc_version=''
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='  -R /usr/perl5/5.22/lib/i86pc-solaris-thread-multi-64/CORE'
    cccdlflags='-KPIC', lddlflags=' -G -m64 -L/lib/64'


Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): 
  Compile-time options: HAS_TIMES MULTIPLICITY PERLIO_LAYERS
                        PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV
                        PERL_HASH_FUNC_ONE_AT_A_TIME_HARD
                        PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT PERL_MALLOC_WRAP
                        PERL_NEW_COPY_ON_WRITE PERL_PRESERVE_IVUV
                        PERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV USE_64_BIT_ALL USE_64_BIT_INT
                        USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILES USE_LOCALE
                        USE_LOCALE_COLLATE USE_LOCALE_CTYPE
                        USE_LOCALE_NUMERIC USE_LOCALE_TIME USE_PERLIO
                        USE_PERL_ATOF USE_REENTRANT_API USE_SITECUSTOMIZE
  Built under solaris
  Compiled at Aug 10 2018 04:22:03
  @INC:
    /usr/perl5/site_perl/5.22/i86pc-solaris-thread-multi-64
    /usr/perl5/site_perl/5.22
    /usr/perl5/vendor_perl/5.22/i86pc-solaris-thread-multi-64
    /usr/perl5/vendor_perl/5.22
    /usr/perl5/5.22/lib/i86pc-solaris-thread-multi-64
    /usr/perl5/5.22/lib