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Re: PL_stashcache, or, what's our minimum Perl version?

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

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "Tels" <nospam-pg-abuse@bloodgate.com>
Cc: "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew@dunslane.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2017-07-30T20:35:28Z
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"Tels" <nospam-pg-abuse@bloodgate.com> writes:
> On Sun, July 30, 2017 12:22 pm, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Yeah, I looked into that.  The closest candidate I can find is that
>> perl 5.10.1 contains Test::More 0.92.  However, it's not real clear
>> to me exactly which files I'd need to pull out of 5.10.1 and inject into
>> an older tarball --- the layout seems a lot different from a standalone
>> package.

> So basically the two files:
> http://search.cpan.org/src/EXODIST/Test-Simple-1.302086/lib/Test/More.pm
> http://search.cpan.org/src/EXODIST/Test-Simple-1.302086/lib/Test/Builder/Module.pm
> might do the trick.

Thanks for the hint.  I transplanted these files out of a 5.10.1
tarball into 5.8.3, then built as usual:
lib/Test/Simple.pm
lib/Test/More.pm
lib/Test/Builder.pm
lib/Test/Builder/Module.pm
The result seems to work, although it fails a few of 5.8.3's tests,
probably because I didn't copy over the relevant test scripts.
It's good enough to run PG's tests though.

			regards, tom lane

Commits

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

  2. Further improve consistency of configure's program searching.

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

  4. Record full paths of programs sought by "configure".

  5. Abandon the use of Perl's Safe.pm to enforce restrictions in plperl, as it is