On Mar 30, 2022, at 9:12 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
On Mar 30, 2022, at 8:19 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
I think this means that its old Perl version misinterprets
use parent -norequire, qw(PostgreSQL::Test::Cluster);
as a request to include "parent.pm". Is there a more
backwards-compatible way to spell that?
Not that I know of. Googling tells me it was a core module from 5.10.1. I can revert tomorrow if necessary :-(
Hmm. I checked not too long ago, and these are the buildfarm animals that would be broken:
prairiedog | 2022-03-23 05:04:02 | configure: using perl 5.8.3 anole | 2022-03-24 10:40:08 | configure: using perl 5.8.8 gharial | 2022-03-24 18:32:22 | configure: using perl 5.8.8 locust | 2022-03-19 22:17:53 | configure: using perl 5.8.8 gaur | 2022-03-19 15:00:54 | configure: using perl 5.8.9
I could update prairiedog and gaur (... probably), but hard to say about the others.
It seems kind of sad for a backwards-compatibility patch to force a major move of our minimum Perl version. OTOH, if there's no other good way to do it, maybe we gotta.
Another possibility is that maybe parent.pm could be successfully installed into a 5.8.x installation. I can't speak for those other animals, but mine at least are already frankencritters.
