I tried my build with TEXINFO_XS=debug and it states 'XSParagraph.so loaded',
so I think it's working well.
If there's no shared libperl, XS module simply uses the symbols exported
by the perl binary. I also had a look at debian's perl distribution, it's
using shared libperl but the XS modules are
XSParagraph assumes perl is built with a shared libperl library, which
is not always the case, in fact, static libperl is the default option
when building perl. And since XSParagraph adds -lperl to its ldflags,
it will result in a build failure because you can not link a shared
object with a static