Re: configure PostgreSQL with PERL: Perl version 5.8 or later is required, but this is .

Tom,

I m getting this.

TargetUser(at)TARGETMACH ~
$ perl -v
This is perl, v5.8.8 built for msys-64int

5.8.8 is not right. See later emails.

Andre Mikulec
Andre_Mikulec(at)Hotmail(dot)com

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From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2016 9:54 AM
To: Andre Mikulec
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] configure PostgreSQL with PERL: Perl version 5.8 or later is required, but this is .

Andre Mikulec <andre_mikulec(at)hotmail(dot)com> writes:
> I am getting the error message.

> *** The installed version of Perl, /c/EnterpriseDB/LanguagePack/9.5/x64/Perl-5.20/bin, is too old to use with PostgreSQL.
> *** Perl version 5.8 or later is required, but this is .
> configure: WARNING:
> *** Without Perl you will not be able to build PostgreSQL from Git.
> *** You can obtain Perl from any CPAN mirror site.
> *** (If you are using the official distribution of PostgreSQL then you do not
> *** need to worry about this, because the Perl output is pre-generated.)
> configure: error: Perl not found

> Why does it say, "Perl version 5.8 or later is required, but this is ."?

It's trying to extract the Perl version number from the output of
"perl -v", and evidently failing to find one. What does "perl -v"
print with that version of Perl?

regards, tom lane