Re: [PATCH] [committed] autom4te: Don’t crash if Data::Dumper::Sortkeys is unavailable.

2023-12-19 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Tue, Dec 19, 2023, at 7:13 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: > > Solaris 10: the OS version that refuses to die If I ever get around to CI for autoconf, one of the workers is going to be set up with "Heirloom" utilities, the least capable shell I can find that still passes M4sh's acceptance test, an

Re: [PATCH] [committed] autom4te: Don’t crash if Data::Dumper::Sortkeys is unavailable.

2023-12-19 Thread Paul Eggert
On 2023-12-11 13:48, Paul Eggert wrote: On 12/11/23 10:19, Zack Weinberg wrote: we lowered it to 5.6.0 again in 05e295b60cfdf378b7ed8c1f8563a5644d5d4689 A minor point: in that commit message I mentioned that Solaris 10 (which has only Perl 5.8.4) was supported through January 2024. On that sa

Re: [PATCH] [committed] autom4te: Don’t crash if Data::Dumper::Sortkeys is unavailable.

2023-12-11 Thread Paul Eggert
On 12/11/23 10:19, Zack Weinberg wrote: we lowered it to 5.6.0 again in 05e295b60cfdf378b7ed8c1f8563a5644d5d4689 A minor point: in that commit message I mentioned that Solaris 10 (which has only Perl 5.8.4) was supported through January 2024. On that same day (!) Oracle announced[1] that they

[PATCH] [committed] autom4te: Don’t crash if Data::Dumper::Sortkeys is unavailable.

2023-12-11 Thread Zack Weinberg
Commit c2ab755698db245898a4cc89149eb5df256e4bd0 added an unconditional use of Data::Dumper’s Sortkeys method, which was added in version 2.12_01 of that module. In terms of Perl versions, it is available in 5.8.x and later, and in 5.6.2, but not in 5.6.1 or earlier. At the time, our minimum Perl v