[tlbuild] Perl syntax in TLUtils.pm not understood by Solaris 10

Apostolos Syropoulos asyropoulos at gmail.com
Thu Jan 13 22:45:24 CET 2022


Either update Perl (it compiles very easy)
or drop support for Solaris 10 and
focus on Solaris 11 and Illumos based
 systems.

AS

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Στις Πέμ, 13 Ιαν 2022, 23:38 ο χρήστης Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org>
έγραψε:

>     near "package main {
>
> It seemed this so-called "package block syntax" was introduced in perl
> 5.14.0, released circa May 2011.
> https://metacpan.org/pod/perl5140delta#Syntactical-Enhancements
>
> I could use another workaround for the minor problem I'm using it to
> solve, although naturally I'd rather not spend time doing this. Any way
> you can use a newer perl?
>
>     not understood by Solaris 10
>
> It will be a great day for portability when Solaris 10 disappears. -k
>
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