If you look at Sys::SigAction, you can see some samples of this kind of
testing in Makefile.PL. (it prints both warnings, but continues... with
some tests disabled, and it returns NO-Supported status that causes the
Smoke testers to mark it as N/A (Microsoft Windows).  

On Tue, 2016-10-11 at 14:27 -0400, yary wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 12:36 PM, Joel Maslak <jmas...@antelope.net>
> wrote:
> > They backport security patches from new versions to the old
> version, but
> > don't backport most features.  Thus even though RHEL 5 machines
> might be
> > running ".9.8e" (hopefully -40), they will have the critical
> security
> > patches - even though OpenSSL officially doesn't have them in
> .9.8e.
> 
> Sounds like the answer is a Gnu Configure-like philosophy of testing
> for the particular security issues with a small probe-script, to be
> compiled a Makefile.PL time.
> 
> -y

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