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| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL | 27 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 17 deletions
@@ -8,10 +8,12 @@ To compile irssi you need: - pkg-config - openssl (for ssl support) - perl-5.6 or greater (for perl support) +- terminfo or ncurses (for text frontend) For most people, this should work just fine: - ./configure + ./autogen.sh (for people who just cloned the repository) + ./configure (if this script already exists, skip ./autogen.sh) make su make install (not _really_ required except for perl support) @@ -28,10 +30,6 @@ configure options Build the irssi proxy (see startup-HOWTO). - --disable-ipv6 - - Disable IPv6 support. - --disable-ssl Disable SSL support. @@ -62,17 +60,11 @@ configure options Build without text frontend -If ncurses is installed in a non-standard path you can specify it with ---with-ncurses=/path. If anything else is in non-standard path, you can just -give the paths in CPPFLAGS and LIBS environment variable, eg.: +If anything is in non-standard path, you can just give the paths in +CPPFLAGS and LIBS environment variable, eg.: CPPFLAGS=-I/opt/openssl/include LDFLAGS=-L/opt/openssl/lib ./configure -Irssi doesn't really need curses anymore, by default it uses -terminfo/termcap directly. The functions for using terminfo/termcap -however are usually only in curses library, some systems use libtermcap -as well. If you want to use only curses calls for some reason, use ---without-terminfo. Perl problems @@ -94,10 +86,11 @@ 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: |