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commit fbde1f13be47d3c0d1d502adcb243d83b7e1c2ea
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Wed Nov 8 14:51:25 2023 -0600
[build]: Increment Perl dependency to 5.8.
...from 5.6.1. gropdf requires 5.8 now.
* m4/groff.m4 (GROFF_PERL): Do it.
* INSTALL.extra:
* doc/webpage.ms: Document it.
---
ChangeLog | 8 ++++++++
INSTALL.extra | 2 +-
doc/webpage.ms | 2 +-
m4/groff.m4 | 4 ++--
4 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 70696ce8f..ca0ab245c 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+2024-01-03 G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
+
+ Increment Perl dependency from 5.6.1. gropdf requires 5.8.
+
+ * m4/groff.m4 (GROFF_PERL): Do it.
+ * INSTALL.extra:
+ * doc/webpage.ms: Document it.
+
2024-01-03 Deri James <[email protected]>
[gropdf]: Add font subsetting and Type 1 font parser.
diff --git a/INSTALL.extra b/INSTALL.extra
index 1fba587e6..1f19e2cc8 100644
--- a/INSTALL.extra
+++ b/INSTALL.extra
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ optional by ISO C11 (the 'complex' primitive data type and
variable-length arrays) are not used.
Several programs distributed with GNU roff are written in the Perl
-language. Version 5.6.1 (1 April 2001) or later is required.
+language. Perl 5.8.0 (18 July 2002) or later is required.
The 'uchardet' library is an optional dependency of the 'preconv'
program: if this library is found by 'configure', it will be
diff --git a/doc/webpage.ms b/doc/webpage.ms
index 1e45ca147..6d6a2885f 100644
--- a/doc/webpage.ms
+++ b/doc/webpage.ms
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ following tools to build `groff' directly from its source:
.in 2m
.nf
-perl \[>=] v5.6.1 (see macro GROFF_PERL in file `m4/groff.m4')
+perl \[>=] v5.8 (see macro GROFF_PERL in file `m4/groff.m4')
ghostscript
the psutils package
the netpbm package
diff --git a/m4/groff.m4 b/m4/groff.m4
index ba50f404b..925fb039d 100644
--- a/m4/groff.m4
+++ b/m4/groff.m4
@@ -78,10 +78,10 @@ AC_DEFUN([GROFF_PROG_YACC], [
fi
])
-# We need Perl 5.6.1 or newer.
+# We need Perl 5.8 or newer.
AC_DEFUN([GROFF_PERL], [
- PERLVERSION=v5.6.1
+ PERLVERSION=v5.8
AC_PATH_PROG([PERL], [perl], [no])
if test "$PERL" = no
then
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