Re: [Update install instruction for macOS] Update install instruction for macOS

Paul Eggert <[email protected]> Sat, 19 Nov 2022 20:03:40 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.patches
Organization UCLA Computer Science Department
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2022-11-19 13:20, Minsoo Choo wrote:
> +On macOS, users should not use the default perl, but manually install
> +it fromhttps://www.perl.org/get.html.

Could you explain why this advice is helpful? What is the default perl 
version on macOS, and do different macOS versions have different perl 
versions, and why doesn't the most recent macOS version work with Autoconf?