Re: Perl 5.8 requirement for compiling on windows?

From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Marios Vodas <mvodas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Perl 5.8 requirement for compiling on windows?
Date: 2011-07-04 16:33:26
Message-ID: 4E11EB56.2030306@enterprisedb.com
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On 04.07.2011 19:30, Marios Vodas wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I want to ask why is there a requirement for 5.8 version of Perl to compile
> under windows?
> In this page of the documentation
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/install-windows-full.html#AEN23848it
> sais: "Note: version 5.8 is required".
> I was able to compile PostgreSQL 9.0.4 using Active Perl 5.14 (only some
> warnings but the build was successful).
> Should I necessarily use 5.8?

Surely that means 5.8 or later. Given that 5.8 is very old by now,
perhaps we should just remove that sentence.

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Heikki Linnakangas
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

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