| From: | Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>, Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, Craig Ringer <craig(dot)ringer(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: pgsql: Adjust configure to insist on Perl version >= 5.8.3. |
| Date: | 2021-10-10 02:25:53 |
| Message-ID: | 20211010022553.GB458218@rfd.leadboat.com |
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On Sat, Oct 09, 2021 at 04:34:46PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Hah ... your backpan link led me to realize the actual problem with
> Test::More. It got folded into Test::Simple at some point, and
> evidently cpanm isn't smart enough to handle a request for a back
> version in such cases. But this works:
>
> $ cpanm install Test::Simple(at)0(dot)87_01
> ...
> $ perl -MTest::More -e 'print $Test::More::VERSION, "\n";'
> 0.8701
>
> So we oughta recommend that instead. Now I'm wondering what
> version of IPC::Run to recommend.
You mentioned prairiedog uses IPC::Run 0.79. That's from 2005. (Perl 5.8.3
is from 2004, and Test::More 0.87 is from 2009.) I'd just use 0.79 in the
README recipe. IPC::Run is easy to upgrade, so if we find cause to rely on a
newer version, I'd be fine updating that requirement.
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