State the minimum Perl version that our scripts will work with Reviewed-by: Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>
diff --git a/README.PERL b/README.PERL index c2db019..184b377 100644 --- a/README.PERL +++ b/README.PERL
@@ -23,8 +23,9 @@ - on Linux distributions based on RPMs, you will need to install 'perl-core' rather than just 'perl'. - It is highly recommended that you have at least Perl version 5.10 - installed. + You MUST have at least Perl version 5.10.0 installed. This minimum + requirement is due to our use of regexp backslash sequence \R among + other features that didn't exist in core Perl before that version. Notes on Perl on Windows ------------------------