Re: [PATCH] t9700: fix test for perl older than 5.14

> On vr, 2016-03-04 at 06:43 -0500, Jeff King wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 04, 2016 at 11:58:24AM +0100, Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote:
>>
>> > On vr, 2016-03-04 at 03:56 -0500, Jeff King wrote:
>> > > ? Those are just guesses, but if we are tickling a bug in perl's parser,
>> > > this might avoid them. I also wondered when "/r" appeared. It was in
>> > > 5.14, so you're presumably good there. The "use" statement at the top of
>> > > the script says "5.008", so perhaps we should be writing it out longhand
>> > > anyway (that version is "only" 5 years old, so I suspect there are still
>> > > systems around with 5.12 or older).
>> >
>> > Knowing the system Christian is testing on, I think the problem is that
>> > the tests are actually being run against perl 5.10, which RHEL 6 ships
>> > as system perl. As that's still a supported OS, writing tests in a form
>> > compatible with it would be a good thing :)
>>
>> That would make sense. `perl` in t9700-perl-git.sh (and all of our
>> scripts) is actually a shell function:
>>
>>   perl () {
>>           command "$PERL_PATH" "$@"
>>   }
>>
>> to make sure we respect PERL_PATH everywhere. And that defaults in the
>> Makefile to /usr/bin/perl. Christian presumably has 5.14 in his $PATH,
>> but /usr/bin/perl is the system 5.10.
>
> Yeah, that's how our systems are set up.