Re: Irssi 0.8.5 segfault on RedHat 8.0

Thierry Mallard wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> Just installed RedHat 8.0 to give it a look, and as I didn't find irssi with
> its packages, I've download the irssi 0.8.5 tarball.
> 
> Configuration was ok, compilation too.
> 
> But after installing irssi, and trying to launch it, it segfault just after
> clearing the screen -makes me wonder if the problem wouldn't be in ncurses?-
> 
> Is this a known issue ?

almost certainly the problem with multithreaded perl 5.8

> Should I try the current CVS code ?
yes, it's fixed in cvs.