irssi compiling for rpi

setting up the new irssi for RPI

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ mkdir compile
pi@raspberrypi ~ $ cd compile/
pi@raspberrypi ~/compile $ wget http://www.irssi.org/files/irssi-0.8.17.tar.gz

100%[======================================>] 1,460,897   55.4K/s   in 21s

pi@raspberrypi ~/compile $ tar -zxf irssi-0.8.17.tar.gz
pi@raspberrypi ~/compile $ cd irssi-0.8.17/
pi@raspberrypi ~/compile/irssi-0.8.17 $ ./configure

...

*** sudo apt-get install libglib2.0-dev

configure: error: GLIB is required to build irssi.
pi@raspberrypi ~/compile/irssi-0.8.17 $ sudo apt-get install libglib2.0-dev

--- installing glib (and probably perl, don't know yet)

----configuring again

Configure ran completely and totally. All went well, but there was a brainfart..

pi@raspberrypi ~/compile/irssi-0.8.17 $ make -j 4

-----^ use 4 threads to compile (for the 4 cores)

robo@raspberrypi ~ $ uptime
 22:29:33 up 1 day,  6:45,  3 users,  load average: 4.47, 2.68, 1.54
robo@raspberrypi ~ $

-- temp check

robo@raspberrypi ~ $ cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp
44388
======= 44.3 C

robo@raspberrypi ~ $ /opt/vc/bin/vcgencmd measure_temp
temp=44.4'C

-----^---- GPU temp

--- compile completed. uninstall screen and irssi (old version) to install freshly compiled irssi and TMUX as a screen replacement.

pi@raspberrypi ~/compile/irssi-0.8.17 $ sudo apt-get remove irssi
pi@raspberrypi ~/compile/irssi-0.8.17 $ sudo apt-get install tmux


pi@raspberrypi ~/compile/irssi-0.8.17 $ sudo make install

*installs the new irssi. Here was the problem. I didn't see PERL wasn't installed properly!

pi@raspberrypi ~/compile/irssi-0.8.17 $ make clean
***^ cleans up deps/bins to reconfigure

pi@raspberrypi ~/compile/irssi-0.8.17 $ sudo apt-get install libperl-dev
---- installs dev files for PERL, so that irssi scripts work.

---- Now just go through and ./configure and make SURE when it tests PERL that it sees the libraries properly.
---- I lost the log for what to look for, sorry :/

pi@raspberrypi ~/compile/irssi-0.8.17 $ make -j 4

pi@raspberrypi ~/compile/irssi-0.8.17 $ sudo make install

Now you've upgraded your IRSSI to the newest version instead of a 4 year old version that comes from the package manager! Enjoy!