Hi Jonathan,
On the page https://gcc.gnu.org/install/prerequisites.html it says:
Perl version between 5.6.1 and 5.6.24
Necessary when targeting Darwin, building ‘libstdc++’, and not using
--disable-symvers. Necessary when targeting Solaris 2 with Solaris ld and
not using --disable-symvers.
Necessary when regenerating Makefile dependencies in libiberty. Necessary
when regenerating libiberty/functions.texi. Necessary when generating
manpages from Texinfo manuals. Used by various scripts to generate some
files included in the source repository (mainly Unicode-related and rarely
changing) from source tables.
Used by automake.
My impression is that Perl 5.6.x is long obsolete (5.6.0 was released in
March 2000), and the available 5.6.x versions were 5.6.0, 5.6.1 and 5.6.2
(never 5.6.24). Much later versions of Perl (5.32.0 is current) will work
fine.
Do they also work with --enable-maintainer-mode? IIRC, they break with
automake.
If not, then we should leave it as it is.
Regards
Thomas
