Open KSirc, and this is all that happens:
[quote]
[21:28:01] Your perl interpreter is *really* screwed up: the getopts.pl library
is not
[21:28:01] even there! Have you even bothered to run 'install'?[/quote]

Trying to find a fix Googling turns up things like the following:
[quote]
> In /pub/majordomo/majordomo-1.94.1.tgz on ftp.greatcircle.com there is no
> file getopts.pl (which is 'require'd in resend.)

That file should be part of your Perl installation. If it's not in the
Perl library, you don't have a complete/correct Perl installation and
must reinstall Perl.[/quote]

Reinstalling perl didn't/doesn't help here in fresh 13.1 installation using old
11.4 /home. KSirc is useless. It worked fine in 11.4/Evergreen.

# which getopts.pl
which: no getopts.pl in
(/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/root/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/opt/kde3/bin)

# rpm -qa | grep perl
perl-5.18.1-2.1.11.i586
perl-AnyEvent-7.04-2.1.2.i586
perl-Bootloader-0.711-1.1.i586
perl-Cairo-1.103-2.1.3.i586
perl-Config-Crontab-1.33-7.1.2.noarch
perl-Crypt-SmbHash-0.12-155.1.2.i586
perl-Data-Dump-1.22-2.1.2.noarch
perl-Digest-MD4-1.9-2.1.4.i586
perl-Digest-SHA1-2.13-16.1.4.i586
perl-Encode-Locale-1.03-6.1.2.noarch
perl-Event-1.21-2.1.2.i586
perl-Event-ExecFlow-0.64-6.3.i586
perl-Event-RPC-1.03-3.3.noarch
perl-ExtUtils-Depends-0.304-13.1.2.noarch
perl-ExtUtils-PkgConfig-1.14-2.1.2.noarch
perl-File-Listing-6.04-6.1.2.noarch
perl-Getopt-Mixed-1.11-2.1.2.noarch
perl-Glib-1.301-2.1.3.i586
perl-Gtk2-1.247-2.1.3.i586
perl-Gtk2-Ex-FormFactory-0.65-7.3.i586
perl-HTML-Parser-3.69-17.1.4.i586
perl-HTML-Tagset-3.20-70.1.2.noarch
perl-HTML-Tidy-1.54-4.1.2.i586
perl-HTTP-Cookies-6.01-6.1.2.noarch
perl-HTTP-Daemon-6.01-6.1.2.noarch
perl-HTTP-Date-6.02-6.1.2.noarch
perl-HTTP-Message-6.06-2.1.2.noarch
perl-HTTP-Negotiate-6.01-6.1.2.noarch
perl-IO-HTML-1.00-2.1.2.noarch
perl-IO-Socket-SSL-1.953-2.1.2.noarch
perl-LWP-MediaTypes-6.02-6.1.2.noarch
perl-LWP-Protocol-https-6.04-2.8.1.noarch
perl-Net-DBus-1.0.0-7.1.2.i586
perl-Net-HTTP-6.06-2.1.2.noarch
perl-Net-LibIDN-0.12-13.1.2.i586
perl-Net-SSLeay-1.55-2.2.1.i586
perl-Pango-1.224-2.1.3.i586
perl-Parse-RecDescent-1.967009-6.1.2.i586
perl-TermReadLine-Gnu-1.20-5.1.2.i586
perl-Text-Wrapper-1.04-2.1.2.noarch
perl-Tie-IxHash-1.23-2.1.2.noarch
perl-TimeDate-1.20-23.1.2.noarch
perl-URI-1.60-6.1.2.noarch
perl-WWW-RobotRules-6.02-6.1.2.noarch
perl-X11-Protocol-0.56-11.1.2.i586
perl-X500-DN-0.29-105.1.2.i586
perl-XML-LibXML-2.0019-2.1.3.i586
perl-XML-NamespaceSupport-1.11-20.1.2.i586
perl-XML-Parser-2.41-20.1.2.i586
perl-XML-SAX-0.99-21.1.2.i586
perl-XML-SAX-Base-1.08-7.1.2.noarch
perl-XML-SAX-Expat-0.50-2.1.2.noarch
perl-XML-Simple-2.20-2.1.2.noarch
perl-XML-Twig-3.44-2.1.2.noarch
perl-XML-XPath-1.13-98.1.2.i586
perl-XML-XPathEngine-0.14-2.1.2.noarch
perl-base-5.18.1-2.1.11.i586
perl-gettext-1.05-162.1.2.i586
perl-libintl-perl-1.20-22.1.2.i586
perl-libwww-perl-6.05-2.1.2.noarch
yast2-perl-bindings-3.0.1-3.1.i586

kdenetwork3-IRC-3.5.10-156.1.i586 in 13.1 
kdenetwork3-IRC-3.5.10-156.1.i586 in 13.2 same problem (different host kt880)
kdenetwork3-IRC-3.5.10-156.21.i586 in TW same problem (different host kt880)