Added real installation instructions to INSTALL file.

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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.
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