perl 5.8.1 and irssi broken for me

[-- Thor --]

Howdy,

I upgraded my perl to 5.8.1 this morning. That in itself is usually pretty scary as some things can break after perl upgrades, but I now have a problem that I am having a bear of a time solving.

Anyway, after the upgrade I remerged irssi for it to be happy with new perl. However it didn't work. I have since unmerged and emerged irssi several times, I have emerged (and since unmerged) irssi-cvs, and now I am back to regular irssi ebuild (0.8.6). I am getting these errors when trying irssi:

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Can't locate Symbol.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i686-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i686-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i686-linux /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl .) at (eval 9) line 9.

But during the ./configure while emerging irssi it says:

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Building with module support : yes
Building with Perl support . : static (in irssi binary)
Perl library directory ..... : /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.1/i686-linux
  - NOTE: This was automatically set to the same directory you gave with
  --prefix. If you want the perl libraries to install to their 'correct'
  path, you'll need to give --with-perl-lib=site option to configure.
  Anyway, installing perl to this directory should work just as well.

I have also remerged many (about 20, but not quite all) of the previous Perl Modules (probably none of which have diddly to do with irssi) I had in 5.8.0, and they happily have gone into the 5.8.1 directories and left the 5.8.0 directory as expected.

Does getting rid of 5.6.1 and 5.8.0 break things I don't want to break? Does anyone know of why irssi does this? Why is perl upgrading so scary?

Regards,

Jeff

[-- Thor --]

Well here's an update for my situation. I downgraded to 5.8.0-r12 or whatever it is these days. Ran libperl_rebuilder, and fixed some issues on that front. Seems as though the irssi ebuild (something about perl-module and the way irssi builds, perhaps) causes the three or four perl modules that come with irssi to install in /var/tmp blah blah. (Bug Ref.)

Anyway the way I got the Irssi perl modules in their happy place again, emerge the latest irssi ebuild (to keep my portage aware) and then, using the exact same ./configure switches as the ebuild suggests + --with-perl-lib=/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0 , make and install from source. That way the modules go to where they need to be. I didn't try adding the --with-perl-lib switch into the ebuild and test because perl upgrade/downgrade ate into my Savage playing time a bit too much last night I don't know enough about the perl-module eclass to know if that would conflict. Anyway...maybe I'll try that today.

Regards,

Jeff