Remove Perl dependency.

[matz-e]

No real Perl functionality is required in NEURON, but it adds complexity to the build, and introduces yet another language.

For MacOS, starting with 12.3, readlink -f is supported. MacOS 11 aka Big Sur has reached the end of official Apple support in 2023.

[pramodk]

🎉

I will let @nrnhines take a look as he might know all corner cases from old days.

[pramodk]

error: IClamp mechanism does not exist
packaging/python/test_wheels.sh: line 98: 18770 Abort trap: 6           nrniv-core --datpath .

Wheel CI has the above. This indicates the mod_func.cpp is not generated properly i.e. additional mechanisms are not being registered properly.

[matz-e]

@pramodk is used some Bash 4 things that are not available on MacOS :facepalm:

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