From 09d25ac5c12802f008c57421e8a0647aabe376a7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lukas Mai Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2024 17:41:12 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] INSTALL: clarify requirements You don't need an installed, runnable "up-to-date version of Perl" to build perl, just a reasonably recent source tree. Also, update references to 5.8 and 5.10 to the more current versions 5.38 and 5.40. (See also: GH #22390) --- INSTALL | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index f798ba42ea0f..1a9d7cb4464b 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -10,11 +10,11 @@ INSTALL - Build and Installation guide for perl 5. =head1 SYNOPSIS -First, make sure you have an up-to-date version of Perl. If you -didn't get your Perl source from CPAN, check the latest version at +First, make sure you have an up-to-date version of the Perl source code. If +you didn't get your Perl source from CPAN, check the latest version at L. Perl uses a version scheme where even-numbered -subreleases (like 5.8.x and 5.10.x) are stable maintenance releases and -odd-numbered subreleases (like 5.7.x and 5.9.x) are unstable +subreleases (like 5.38.x and 5.40.x) are stable maintenance releases and +odd-numbered subreleases (like 5.39.x and 5.41.x) are unstable development releases. Development releases should not be used in production environments. Fixes and new features are first carefully tested in development releases and only if they prove themselves to be