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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 4c6f5681..5e6e2be0 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -85,10 +85,11 @@ things that can go wrong:
- If configure complains that it doesn't find some perl stuff, you're
probably missing libperl.so or libperl.a. In debian, you'll need to do
apt-get install libperl-dev
- - For unprivileged home directory installations, using the local::lib CPAN
- module is recommended. Read its docs, bootstrap it if needed, ensure that
- the environment variables are set before running the configure script, and
- append "--with-perl-lib=site" to the configure parameters to use it.
+ - For unprivileged home directory installations, you probably do not want
+ to specify --with-perl-lib=(site|vendor). Instead, you can use the
+ default perl installation target (below the irssi prefix). If you are
+ using local::lib you can also choose to install there by specifying
+ --with-perl-lib=$PERL_LOCAL_LIB_ROOT/lib/perl5
You can verify that the perl module is loaded and working with "/LOAD"
command. It should print something like: