From c63eb21e8d053585dd8a56a661503a40adcc1e54 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: K900 <me@0upti.me>
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2025 13:09:01 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] perl: drop version check

Meson started handling those differently[0], and Perl 5.8 is old enough
that anyone running an even older Perl is honestly asking for it.

[0]: https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/commit/a3679a64eec7c312c81d657880f34f015426c7db

Change-Id: Ifba22e38a82abf4b6965dda0eed43a3064533d25
---
 perl/meson.build | 5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/perl/meson.build b/perl/meson.build
index 6f078f8e6..1356d874b 100644
--- a/perl/meson.build
+++ b/perl/meson.build
@@ -19,10 +19,7 @@ endif
 
 cxx = meson.get_compiler('cpp')
 
-# Really version 5.8.0, but Perl's version string is of the form
-# "This is perl 5, version 38, subversion 2", for 5.38.2, so as far
-# as Meson is concerned, the version of Perl we need is 8 or greater.
-perl = find_program('perl', version : '>=8')
+perl = find_program('perl')
 
 # "compiler to convert Perl XS code into C code"
 xsubpp = find_program('xsubpp')