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diff --git a/docs/perl.txt b/docs/perl.txt index 16ff18c0..0d779a8e 100644 --- a/docs/perl.txt +++ b/docs/perl.txt @@ -1,33 +1,9 @@ Installation problems --------------------- -You'll need to have perl support compiled with irssi. make install is -also required to make them work. There's quite a many things that may -go wrong with perl: - - - 5.004 doesn't work by default, you'll need to edit - src/perl/irssi-core.pl and remove all lines with "delete_package" - in them - - Compiling fails if you compile irssi with GCC in a system that has - perl compiled with some other C compiler. Very common problem with - non-Linux/BSD systems. You'll need to edit src/perl/*/Makefile files - and remove the parameters that gcc doesn't like. Mostly you'll just - need to keep the -I and -D parameters and add -fPIC. - - If there's any weird crashing at startup, you might have older irssi's - perl libraries installed somewhere, and you should remove those. - - Dynamic libraries don't want to work with some systems, so if your - system complains about some missing symbol in Irssi.so file, configure - irssi with --with-perl-staticlib option (NOT same as --with-perl=static). - - 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 - -You can verify that the perl module is loaded and working with "/LOAD" -command. It should print something like: - -Module Type Submodules -... -perl static core fe +You'll need to have perl support compiled with irssi. If "/LOAD" +doesn't show perl in list of loaded modules, you have a problem. See +INSTALL file for information about perl problems. Running scripts |