perl-5.20: break dependency on the compiler that built it
This is a major closure size reduction on Darwin, and probably a less significant one on Linux. On darwin, retaining the compiler means adding clang and its dependency llvm to the perl closure, which gives us ~400MB of extra stuff. Considering that Nix itself depends on this version of perl, that makes cutting a new Nix release rather unpleasaont Darwin. After this patch, I was able to get the `nixUnstable` closure down to 21MB after feeding it into a .tar.xz (123MB before compression). There's still room for improvement but this should carry us over until we split outputs.
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