irssi and perl 5.8.2 doesn't work

Mathieu Arnold mat at FreeBSD.org
Sun Mar 7 09:03:28 PST 2004


+- Le dimanche 7 mars 2004 18:02 +0100 Thomas Vogt a dit :
| Vanilla I. Shu wrote:
|
|> On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 05:25:58PM +0100, Thomas Vogt wrote:
|>
|>> If I use perl 5.8 from ports irssi will link agains perl.
|>> irssi:
|>>        libperl.so => /usr/lib/libperl.so (0x2810d000)
|>
|> I thing you binary link to 5.003's library.
|>
|> how about rm /usr/lib/libperl.so* (or rename it), and try again?.
|>
|>
| Hi
|
| Yes this fixed my irssi problem. thnx. Is it possible to remove the
| whole perl 5.003 from the freebsd 4.x without harm the main system?

Well, that's what I usually do on my 4.x boxes, you can safely remove this 
libperl, you may have some perl* binaries in /usr/bin, which you should 
remove too (don't remove /usr/bin/perl which should be a link to the real 
perl).

-- 
Mathieu Arnold


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