The regular build instructions for Perl were a wash for me: http://unit.nginx.org/installation/. My guess is that something about the darwin verison of Perl I have made it impossible for the configure to find/use and I didn't want to mess with it or try to perlbrew it to see if worked better.

This, however, seems to install fine and easily: https://github.com/skaji/nginx-unit-example-perl. I'm not going to mess around more tonight but the following got it together in a standalone dir. 

git clone git@github.com:skaji/nginx-unit-example-perl.git
cd nginx-unit-example-perl/
./build.sh
#    perl 5.26.1 to ./perl/bin/perl
#    nginx unit to ./unit/build/unitd
/unit/build/unitd --modules ./unit/build --no-daemon
# ...
2019/02/23 00:41:35 [info] 85210#15065386 unit started

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