State the minimum Perl version that our scripts will work with

Reviewed-by: Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>

diff --git a/README.PERL b/README.PERL
index c2db0190ab5b1515affede930c4fefb541adff4b..184b3771a06b752cb5e1dc6710526ae41b5597ad 100644 (file)
--- a/README.PERL
+++ b/README.PERL
@@ -23,8 +23,9 @@
  - on Linux distributions based on RPMs, you will need to install
    'perl-core' rather than just 'perl'.
 
- It is highly recommended that you have at least Perl version 5.10
- installed.
+ You MUST have at least Perl version 5.10.0 installed.  This minimum
+ requirement is due to our use of regexp backslash sequence \R among
+ other features that didn't exist in core Perl before that version.
 
  Notes on Perl on Windows
  ------------------------