New comment by dkwo on void-packages repository https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/33089#issuecomment-926939864 Comment: Also, quoting perl-cross homepage :) > If you can use Configure from the vanilla distribution, you probably should use Configure; > perl-cross is for the cases when Configure just can't make it. > The configure script from perl-cross is essentially a 100 kB long session of severe sh(1) abuse.