Commit 702d8c1 (which landed not long before Meson was added) dropped
support for Perl versions back to 5.8.1.
Signed-off-by: Peter Oliver <git@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
meson.build | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 0064eb64f5..f01d81b39f 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -755,7 +755,7 @@ endif
# Note that we only set NO_PERL if the Perl features were disabled by the user.
# It may not be set when we have found Perl, but only use it to run tests.
-perl = find_program('perl', version: '>=5.8.1', dirs: program_path, required: perl_required)
+perl = find_program('perl', version: '>=5.26.0', dirs: program_path, required: perl_required)
perl_features_enabled = perl.found() and get_option('perl').allowed()
if perl_features_enabled
build_options_config.set('NO_PERL', '')
--
2.48.1
