From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2016 9:54 AM To: Andre Mikulec Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] configure PostgreSQL with PERL: Perl version 5.8 or later is required, but this is .
Andre Mikulec <andre_mikulec@hotmail.com> writes: > I am getting the error message.
> *** The installed version of Perl, /c/EnterpriseDB/LanguagePack/9.5/x64/Perl-5.20/bin, is too old to use with PostgreSQL. > *** Perl version 5.8 or later is required, but this is . > configure: WARNING: > *** Without Perl you will not be able to build PostgreSQL from Git. > *** You can obtain Perl from any CPAN mirror site. > *** (If you are using the official distribution of PostgreSQL then you do not > *** need to worry about this, because the Perl output is pre-generated.) > configure: error: Perl not found
> Why does it say, "Perl version 5.8 or later is required, but this is ."?
It's trying to extract the Perl version number from the output of "perl -v", and evidently failing to find one. What does "perl -v" print with that version of Perl?