From: Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 21:06:17 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: State the minimum Perl version that our scripts will work with
X-Git-Tag: OpenSSL_1_1_0-pre3~72
X-Git-Url: https://git.librecmc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=de8128203a5340db397dadaee91bc504c2a539bc;p=oweals%2Fopenssl.git

State the minimum Perl version that our scripts will work with

Reviewed-by: Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>
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diff --git a/README.PERL b/README.PERL
index c2db0190ab..184b3771a0 100644
--- 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
  ------------------------