> On Mar 30, 2022, at 9:12 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > > Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> writes: >>>> On Mar 30, 2022, at 8:19 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >>> I think this means that its old Perl version misinterprets >>> use parent -norequire, qw(PostgreSQL::Test::Cluster); >>> as a request to include "parent.pm". Is there a more >>> backwards-compatible way to spell that? > >> Not that I know of. Googling tells me it was a core module from 5.10.1. I >> can revert tomorrow if necessary :-( > > Hmm. I checked not too long ago, and these are the buildfarm > animals that would be broken: > > prairiedog | 2022-03-23 05:04:02 | configure: using perl 5.8.3 > anole | 2022-03-24 10:40:08 | configure: using perl 5.8.8 > gharial | 2022-03-24 18:32:22 | configure: using perl 5.8.8 > locust | 2022-03-19 22:17:53 | configure: using perl 5.8.8 > gaur | 2022-03-19 15:00:54 | configure: using perl 5.8.9 > > I could update prairiedog and gaur (... probably), but hard to say > about the others. > > It seems kind of sad for a backwards-compatibility patch to force a > major move of our minimum Perl version. OTOH, if there's no other > good way to do it, maybe we gotta. > > Another possibility is that maybe parent.pm could be successfully > installed into a 5.8.x installation. I can't speak for those > other animals, but mine at least are already frankencritters. > >
I think it can be salvaged. See https://fastapi.metacpan.org/source/CORION/parent-0.238/lib/parent.pm Cheers Andrew
