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

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: pgsql: Adjust configure to insist on Perl version >= 5.8.3.
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Msg-id 519049.1633985667@sss.pgh.pa.us
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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>)
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I wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>> Why don't we specify the minimum versions required of these somewhere in
>> the perl code? Perl is pretty good at this.

> configure already checks Test::More's version.  I proposed downthread
> that it should also check IPC::Run, but didn't pull that trigger yet.

Done now.

I found an old note indicating that the reason I chose 0.79 for prairiedog
back in 2017 is that 0.78 failed its self-test on that machine.  0.78 did
pass when I tried it just now on a perlbrew-on-Fedora-34 rig, so I'm not
sure what that was about ... but in any case, it discourages me from
worrying any further about whether a lower minimum could be sane.

            regards, tom lane



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