Alex Hunsaker <badalex(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 10:57, Jonathan <jonathan(at)leto(dot)net> wrote:
>> This is perl 5, version 11, subversion 4 (v5.11.4-114-ga4cc961*) built for
>> x86_64-linux
Ugh. Can't they manage to keep that message reasonably consistent?
> ! perl_version_error=`$PERL -e 'use 5.00801;' 2>&1`
This is not a path towards an acceptable solution, as it effectively
assumes what we are setting out to prove, namely that we have found
a reasonably modern version of perl. Try it in perl 4...
regards, tom lane