Re: minimum perl version

[Jim Meyering]

Tom G. Christensen wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 01:53:54PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Sure. I've just pushed the following.
>> Can someone confirm that 5.6.0 works, or even
>> find what precise version is barely new enough?
>>
> I just tried the test on RHEL 2.1 with perl 5.6.1
> and it fails in the same way.
>
> The test works on RHEL 3 with perl 5.8.0.

Thanks, Tom.
Updated like this:

>From 132c58b713b628b98e0e5492a40cc16abe8f16ec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <address@hidden>
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 17:53:36 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] test-update-copyright.sh: require perl 5.8.0

* tests/test-update-copyright.sh: Require 5.8.0,
which Tom G. Christensen has confirmed is adequate,
while 5.6.1 is not.
---
 ChangeLog                      |    7 +++++++
 tests/test-update-copyright.sh |    6 +++---
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 74e4991..93c6b1c 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2010-09-02  Jim Meyering  <address@hidden>
+
+       test-update-copyright.sh: require perl 5.8.0
+       * tests/test-update-copyright.sh: Require 5.8.0,
+       which Tom G. Christensen has confirmed is adequate,
+       while 5.6.1 is not.
+
 2010-09-02  Eric Blake  <address@hidden>

        wctype: fix typo in previous commit
diff --git a/tests/test-update-copyright.sh b/tests/test-update-copyright.sh
index 607928d..09ade03 100755
--- a/tests/test-update-copyright.sh
+++ b/tests/test-update-copyright.sh
@@ -16,9 +16,9 @@
 # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 # along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

-# Skip this test if Perl is too old.  FIXME: 5.6.0 is just a guess.
-# We have a report that 5.004_05 is inadequate and that 5.8.8 works.
-perl -e 'require 5.6.0' || exit 77
+# Skip this test if Perl is too old.  FIXME: 5.8.0 is just a guess.
+# We have a report that 5.6.1 is inadequate and that 5.8.0 works.
+perl -e 'require 5.8.0' || exit 77

 diffout=`diff -u /dev/null /dev/null 2>&1`
 if test x"$diffout" = x"" && test $? -eq 0; then
--
1.7.2.2.510.g7180a