From 102c54990c8ae10943f4f0ac36b5e80b7b900268 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sadie Powell <sadie@witchery.services>
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2021 19:32:33 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Warn users of old Perl versions about the upcoming version
 bump.

---
 configure | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 10c75ce35..a980aee98 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -299,6 +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';
-- 
2.39.2