diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 62ca8b3f..f32ac0b9 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ You need the following installed:
   Perl
 
 Debian/Ubuntu users need:
-  libssl-dev libcrypt-openssl-rsa-perl libao2 libao-dev2 libio-socket-inet6-perl
+  libssl-dev libcrypt-openssl-rsa-perl libao2 libao-dev2 libio-socket-inet6-perl libwww-perl avahi-utils
 
 Perl modules (install from CPAN if needed):
   HTTP::Message
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 8ec08596..a29cc812 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 CFLAGS = `pkg-config --cflags --libs ao openssl`
 
 hairtunes: hairtunes.c alac.c
-	gcc hairtunes.c alac.c -D__i386 -lm $(CFLAGS) -o hairtunes
+	gcc hairtunes.c alac.c -lm $(CFLAGS) -o hairtunes
diff --git a/README b/README
index dadddbba..138ebad5 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-Shairport v0.03
+Shairport v0.05
 ==============
 James Laird <jhl@mafipulation.org>
-April 11, 2011
+April 13, 2011
 
 What it is
 ----------
@@ -42,5 +42,10 @@ Changelog
         bugfix: libao compatibility
 0.03  April 11, 2011
         bugfix: ipv6 didn't work -
-		IO::Socket::INET6 is required too
-
+            IO::Socket::INET6 is required too
+0.04  April 12, 2011
+        cross-platform count_leading_zeros under GCC -
+            will now compile cleanly on ARM and other platforms  
+0.05  April 13, 2011
+        error-handling cleanup in the Perl script
+            including more meaningful error messages, based on common problems seen
diff --git a/alac.c b/alac.c
index cd0860a2..f0b22f5a 100644
--- a/alac.c
+++ b/alac.c
@@ -218,18 +218,10 @@ static int count_leading_zeros(int32_t input)
     }
     return i;
 }
-#elif defined(__GNUC__) && (defined(_X86) || defined(__i386) || defined(i386))
-/* for some reason the unrolled version (below) is
- * actually faster than this. yay intel!
- */
+#elif defined(__GNUC__)
 static int count_leading_zeros(int input)
 {
-    int output = 0;
-    if (!input) return 32;
-    __asm("bsr %1, %0\n"
-        : "=r" (output)
-        : "r" (input));
-    return (0x1f - output);
+    return __builtin_clz(input);
 }
 #elif defined(_MSC_VER) && defined(_M_IX86)
 static int count_leading_zeros(int input)
diff --git a/shairport.pl b/shairport.pl
index 48f62ebd..7d9a805f 100755
--- a/shairport.pl
+++ b/shairport.pl
@@ -58,18 +58,11 @@ sub POPE {
 $SIG{PIPE} = \&POPE;
 
 
-my $avahi_publish = fork();
-if ($avahi_publish==0) {
-    exec 'avahi-publish-service',
-        join('', map { sprintf "%02X", $_ } @hw_addr) . "\@$apname",
-        "_raop._tcp",
-        "5000",
-        "tp=UDP","sm=false","sv=false","ek=1","et=0,1","cn=0,1","ch=2","ss=16","sr=44100","pw=false","vn=3","txtvers=1";
-}        
+our $avahi_publish;
 
 sub REAP {
     if ($avahi_publish == waitpid(-1, WNOHANG)) {
-        die("Avahi publishing failed!");
+        die("Avahi publishing failed! Do you have avahi-publish-service on your PATH?");
     }
     printf("***CHILD EXITED***\n");
     $SIG{CHLD} = \&REAP;
@@ -81,8 +74,21 @@ my %conns;
 $SIG{TERM} = $SIG{INT} = sub {
     map { eval { kill $_->{decoder_pid} } } keys %conns;
     kill 9, $avahi_publish;
-    exit(0);
+    exit 0;
 };
+$SIG{__DIE__} = sub {
+    map { eval { kill $_->{decoder_pid} } } keys %conns;
+    kill 9, $avahi_publish;
+};
+
+$avahi_publish = fork();
+if ($avahi_publish==0) {
+    exec 'avahi-publish-service',
+        join('', map { sprintf "%02X", $_ } @hw_addr) . "\@$apname",
+        "_raop._tcp",
+        "5000",
+        "tp=UDP","sm=false","sv=false","ek=1","et=0,1","cn=0,1","ch=2","ss=16","sr=44100","pw=false","vn=3","txtvers=1";
+}
 
 my $airport_pem = join '', <DATA>;
 my $rsa = Crypt::OpenSSL::RSA->new_private_key($airport_pem) || die;
@@ -90,23 +96,24 @@ my $rsa = Crypt::OpenSSL::RSA->new_private_key($airport_pem) || die;
 my $listen;
 {
     eval {
-            $listen = new IO::Socket::INET6(Listen => 1,
+        local $SIG{__DIE__};
+        $listen = new IO::Socket::INET6(Listen => 1,
                             Domain => AF_INET6,
                             LocalPort => 5000,
                             ReuseAddr => 1,
                             Proto => 'tcp');
     };
     if ($@) {
-            print "**************************************\n\n",
-                  "* IO::Socket::INET6 not present!     *\n",
-                  "* Install this if iTunes won't play. *\n",
-                  "**************************************\n\n";
-
-            $listen = new IO::Socket::INET(Listen => 1,
-                            LocalPort => 5000,
-                            ReuseAddr => 1,
-                            Proto => 'tcp');
+        print "**************************************\n",
+              "* IO::Socket::INET6 not present!     *\n",
+              "* Install this if iTunes won't play. *\n",
+              "**************************************\n\n";
     }
+
+    $listen ||= new IO::Socket::INET(Listen => 1,
+            LocalPort => 5000,
+            ReuseAddr => 1,
+            Proto => 'tcp');
 }
 die "Can't listen on port 5000: $!" unless $listen;