meson: bump minimum required Perl version to 5.26.0

Commit 702d8c1f3b (Require Perl 5.26.0, 2024-10-23) dropped support
for Perl versions older than 5.26.0. The Meson build system, which
has been developed in parallel to that commit, hasn't been bumped
accordingly and thus still requires Perl 5.8.1 or newer.

Fix this by requiring Perl 5.26.0 or newer with Meson.

Signed-off-by: Peter Oliver <git@mavit.org.uk>
Reviewed-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 0df3872..2ffea06 100644 (file)
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -777,7 +777,7 @@ 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', '')