I guess for the same reason OpenSSL needs Perl, to generate some files. IIRC most notable the ASM files are generated via Perl. Update: Here is a link to some

I guess for the same reason OpenSSL needs Perl, to generate some files. IIRC most notable the ASM files are generated via Perl. Update: Here is a link to some Perl BoringSSL stuff: https://boringssl.googlesource.com/boringssl/+/master/crypto/chacha/asm/ https://boringssl.googlesource.com/boringssl/+/master/crypto...