Re: pgsql: Adjust configure to insist on Perl version >= 5.8.3. - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Noah Misch
Subject Re: pgsql: Adjust configure to insist on Perl version >= 5.8.3.
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Msg-id 20211010022553.GB458218@rfd.leadboat.com
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In response to Re: pgsql: Adjust configure to insist on Perl version >= 5.8.3.  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: pgsql: Adjust configure to insist on Perl version >= 5.8.3.
Re: pgsql: Adjust configure to insist on Perl version >= 5.8.3.
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On Sat, Oct 09, 2021 at 04:34:46PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Hah ... your backpan link led me to realize the actual problem with
> Test::More.  It got folded into Test::Simple at some point, and
> evidently cpanm isn't smart enough to handle a request for a back
> version in such cases.  But this works:
> 
> $ cpanm install Test::Simple@0.87_01
> ...
> $ perl -MTest::More -e 'print $Test::More::VERSION, "\n";'
> 0.8701
> 
> So we oughta recommend that instead.  Now I'm wondering what
> version of IPC::Run to recommend.

You mentioned prairiedog uses IPC::Run 0.79.  That's from 2005.  (Perl 5.8.3
is from 2004, and Test::More 0.87 is from 2009.)  I'd just use 0.79 in the
README recipe.  IPC::Run is easy to upgrade, so if we find cause to rely on a
newer version, I'd be fine updating that requirement.



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