From: Tom G. Christensen <tgc@statsbiblioteket.dk>
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 13:06:47 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] change Perl syntax to support Perl 5.6
Message-ID: <48BBE8E7.5020001@statsbiblioteket.dk>
In-Reply-To: <20080901042249.GI7185@schiele.dyndns.org>

Robert Schiele wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 08:57:51PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> I believe RHEL4 is Perl 5.6.1, but I could be wrong.
> 
> No, that's 5.8.5.  RHEL3 is 5.8.0.  RHEL2 is what you are talking about.
> 
Indeed. RHEL 2.1 will be supported by Redhat until May 31, 2009 so has
about 9 months of support life left.
It is probably also the last still supported Linux dist with perl 5.6.x.

On RHEL 2.1 git 1.6.0.1 currently builds fine and it passes the
testsuite except for the tests using --interactive.

-tgc