On Tue, 2022-10-18 at 14:46 -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: > Solaris 10 (supported by Oracle through January 2024) uses Perl > 5.8.4. tests/README says Perl 5.004 or later is needed
That is wrong. In fact the tests/README file hasn't been updated an a very long time (I actually forgot it was there). However it's strange because File::Temp was added in 5.6.x. But it's possible that newdir wasn't available until 5.10, back in 2007... it's a little hard to tell.
