"make check" failure on Solaris 10 with make 4.2.91

[Paul Eggert]

On Solaris 10 sparc, "make check" fails with the attached output. 
Solaris 10 has Perl v5.8.4 (with 46 registered patches), which is still 
maintained by Oracle (most recently updated in 2016).

I guess the GNU Make test procedure currently requires a later version 
of Perl. If so, it'd be helpful for it to skip tests that require a 
newer version of Perl than what's installed. Or if it's easy to port to 
v5.8.4 that'd be good too.

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