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Re: pgsql: Adjust configure to insist on Perl version >= 5.8.3.

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Cc: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>, Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, Craig Ringer <craig.ringer@enterprisedb.com>
Date: 2021-10-11T20:54:27Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
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

Commits

  1. Make configure check for minimum required version of IPC::Run.

  2. Doc: update testing recipe in src/test/perl/README.

  3. Update test/perl/README to insist on Perl version >= 5.8.3, too.

  4. Adjust configure to insist on Perl version >= 5.8.3.

  5. Doc: specify that the minimum supported version of Perl is 5.8.3.