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

Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>

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From: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, Craig Ringer <craig.ringer@enterprisedb.com>, Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Date: 2021-10-07T22:11:31Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
> On 7 Oct 2021, at 23:48, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> Concretely, then, I propose the attached.

LGTM.  Good idea to change the section heading, Portability is a better title
for this.

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Daniel Gustafsson		https://vmware.com/

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.