Warn users of old Perl versions about the upcoming version bump.

[user/henk/code/inspircd.git] / configure

diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 346365a2ab7503bcaa0a3052e157858c738480f2..a980aee98c3fa53232e87e51c258b37782d6d128 100755 (executable)
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -6,8 +6,7 @@
 #   Copyright (C) 2020 Daniel Vassdal <shutter@canternet.org>
 #   Copyright (C) 2019 Matt Schatz <genius3000@g3k.solutions>
 #   Copyright (C) 2019 Anatole Denis <natolumin@rezel.net>
-#   Copyright (C) 2017 emerson <github@emersonveenstra.net>
-#   Copyright (C) 2013-2020 Sadie Powell <sadie@witchery.services>
+#   Copyright (C) 2013-2021 Sadie Powell <sadie@witchery.services>
 #   Copyright (C) 2012, 2019 Robby <robby@chatbelgie.be>
 #   Copyright (C) 2012 ChrisTX <xpipe@hotmail.de>
 #   Copyright (C) 2010 Daniel De Graaf <danieldg@inspircd.org>
@@ -300,6 +299,15 @@ and crashes. Please consider using a different OS like FreeBSD/NetBSD instead.
 EOW
 }
 
+# Warn about Perl versions that will not be supported in the future.
+if ($^V lt 'v5.26.0') {
+       print_warning <<"EOW";
+You are building InspIRCd with Perl $^V. This is very old and will
+not be supported by the next major version of InspIRCd. Please consider updating
+to Perl v5.26 or newer.
+EOW
+}
+
 # Check that the user actually wants this version.
 if (defined $version{REAL_LABEL}) {
        print_warning <<'EOW';