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Re: Git build on antique PowerMac

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Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date
May 9, 2019, 09:10 UTC
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On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 6:28 PM Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sun, May 05 2019, Eric Sunshine wrote:
> > On Sun, May 5, 2019 at 3:43 PM Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> readline() on unopened filehandle       test_must_fail
> >
> > Given [1], I can see (I guess) why it's complaining about modification
> > of a read-only variable. However, the unopened filehandle complaint
> > looks odd.
>
> It's because "while (<>) { readline }" didn't use to be supported until
> 5.10, and he's on 5.8.
Thanks for researching this. Now it makes sense.
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  1. Jeffrey WaltonMay 5, 2019
  2. SZEDER GáborMay 5, 2019
  3. Eric SunshineMay 5, 2019
  4. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonMay 8, 2019
  5. Eric SunshineMay 9, 2019
  6. check-non-portable-shell: support Perl versions older than 5.10Eric Sunshine, May 9, 2019
  7. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonMay 9, 2019
  8. Eric SunshineMay 10, 2019
  9. check-non-portable-shell: support Perl versions older than 5.10Eric Sunshine, May 11, 2019

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