I found it a real pain to set up Perl 5.8.8 to re-check recent TAP
changes against it. It turns out there's a much easier way than
messing with VMs or manually doing a source install, so I documented
it to save others the future pain.
It'd be nice to commit this at least to 9.6 and v10. Trivial one-file
docs patch. There's no README to patch in 9.4 or 9.5.
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From 4ea6e7bff66ac2026bbca130bd036618b4012c35 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Craig Ringer <cr...@2ndquadrant.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2016 15:45:41 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] Document that perl 5.8.8 is required
---
src/test/perl/README | 17 +++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)
diff --git a/src/test/perl/README b/src/test/perl/README
index cfb45a1..f15e4f0 100644
--- a/src/test/perl/README
+++ b/src/test/perl/README
@@ -64,3 +64,20 @@ For available PostgreSQL-specific test methods and some example tests read the
perldoc for the test modules, e.g.:
perldoc src/test/perl/PostgresNode.pm
+
+Required Perl
+-------------
+
+Tests must run on perl 5.8.8 and newer. perlbrew is a good way to obtain
+such a Perl; see https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/App-perlbrew/bin/perlbrew .
+Just install and
+
+ perlbrew --force install 5.8.8
+ perlbrew use 5.8.8
+ perlbrew install-cpanm
+ cpanm install IPC::Run
+
+then re-run configure to ensure the correct Perl is used when running tests. To verify
+that the right Perl was found:
+
+ grep ^PERL= config.log
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2.5.5
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