[Nottingham] irssi compilation error

[Danny King]

Hi, I've been compiling irssi, the configure and make stages completed 
fine but make install gives this error:

make[3]: Entering directory `/home/users/dalkus/irssi-0.8.9/src/perl/common'
make[3]: *** No rule to make target 
`/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.3/i586-linux-thread-multi/Config.pm', needed by 
`Makefile'.  Stop.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/users/dalkus/irssi-0.8.9/src/perl/common'
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/users/dalkus/irssi-0.8.9/src/perl/common'
make[3]: *** No rule to make target 
`/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.3/i586-linux-thread-multi/Config.pm', needed by 
`Makefile'.  Stop.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/users/dalkus/irssi-0.8.9/src/perl/common'
/bin/sh: line 1: cd: irc: No such file or directory
/bin/sh: line 1: cd: ui: No such file or directory
/bin/sh: line 1: cd: textui: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [all-local] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/users/dalkus/irssi-0.8.9/src/perl'
make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/users/dalkus/irssi-0.8.9/src'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

I ran make install as root. Can someone shed light on what i need to do? 
Thanks!