--- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL +On macOS, users should not use the default perl, but manually install +it from https://www.perl.org/get.html.
Thanks for the suggestion. I have a couple comments: 1) INSTALL is maintained in Autoconf, not Automake. I'll try to redirect the bug. 2) Why? I know plenty of people using the mac perl ok for various things. It is a big barrier to install a new perl. Not something to recommend lightly. 3) Even if needed, in general, I feel doubtful that such a blanket and time-sensitive statement should be made in INSTALL. I see INSTALL still contains a couple of notes on "Particular systems", though two are hardly used any more as far as I know (HP-UX and OSF/1), and the other tidbits feel pretty old also. As a matter of practical usefulness, I feel like INSTALL is better off being about system-independent configuration, leaving system information for web pages or other places that aren't so static. But it's not up to me. 4) Notwithstanding all the above, at the very least, I think any such statement should say something specific about how the default perl fails. Anyway, passing over to autoconf ... --best, karl.