11973 – perl upgrade breaks 'irssi'

Bug 11973 - perl upgrade breaks 'irssi'

Summary: perl upgrade breaks 'irssi'

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Unclassified (show other bugs)
Hardware:	x86 Linux

Importance:	High normal
Assignee:	Michael Cummings (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2002-12-11 11:40 UTC by oktay altunergil
Modified:	2011-10-30 22:22 UTC (History)
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Description oktay altunergil 2002-12-11 11:40:48 UTC

After upgrading to perl-5.8.0-r3, irssi-0.8.6 stops working. When invoked it
dies with

"irssi: relocation error: irssi: undefined symbol: perl_eval_pv"


oktay

Comment 1 oktay altunergil 2002-12-13 08:45:17 UTC

My last rsync/world installed sys-devel/perl-5.6.1-r9
'irssi' works again.

oktay

Comment 2 Michael Cummings (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-12-17 11:29:12 UTC

Perl only breaks irssi completely if compiled with threading enabled (optional, 
at your own risk variable now). The default behaviour for perl 5.8 is not 
include threading support, namely because it does break apps like irssi. If you 
are good now, we can close this bug out. If not, let me know.

Comment 3 Michael Cummings (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-12-18 19:24:46 UTC

Last post says it all. Threading is bad in perl for irssi. Hence the at your own
risk disclaimer.