Has anybody had any success installing the Perl Curses module? I ftped the
Curses-1.0.tar.gz to my system, unzipped it, used tar to extract the files.
I modifed Makefile.PL to include -lcurses in the libs. I then did perl
Makefile.PL to create the makefile. I then did a make. Everything went ok.
As part of the make it printed out a list of each of the curses library
routines such as addch and whether or not it could find the routine. It
found everything except 1 or 2 routines. The compile completed succesfully.
I then tried to test the installation as suggested in the INSTALL file as
follows:

perl -Iblib/arch -Iblib/lib demo

to which I get the following:

DYNAMIC LOADING UNRESOLVED EXTERNAL: flusok  ( LDRERR 103)
DYNAMIC LOADING UNRESOLVED EXTERNAL: getcap  ( LDRERR 103)
DYNAMIC LOADING UNRESOLVED EXTERNAL: gettmode  ( LDRERR 103)
DYNAMIC LOADING UNRESOLVED EXTERNAL: whline  ( LDRERR 103)
DYNAMIC LOADING UNRESOLVED EXTERNAL: PAIR_NUMBER  ( LDRERR 103)
DYNAMIC LOADING UNRESOLVED EXTERNAL: pechochar  ( LDRERR 103)
DYNAMIC LOADING UNRESOLVED EXTERNAL: slk_clear  ( LDRERR 103)
DYNAMIC LOADING UNRESOLVED EXTERNAL: slk_init  ( LDRERR 103)
DYNAMIC LOADING UNRESOLVED EXTERNAL: slk_label  ( LDRERR 103)
DYNAMIC LOADING UNRESOLVED EXTERNAL: slk_noutrefresh  ( LDRERR 103)
DYNAMIC LOADING UNRESOLVED EXTERNAL: slk_refresh  ( LDRERR 103)
DYNAMIC LOADING UNRESOLVED EXTERNAL: slk_restore  ( LDRERR 103)
DYNAMIC LOADING UNRESOLVED EXTERNAL: slk_set  ( LDRERR 103)
DYNAMIC LOADING UNRESOLVED EXTERNAL: slk_touch  ( LDRERR 103)
DYNAMIC LOADING UNRESOLVED EXTERNAL: subpad  ( LDRERR 103)
DYNAMIC LOADING UNRESOLVED EXTERNAL: syncok  ( LDRERR 103)
DYNAMIC LOADING UNRESOLVED EXTERNAL: touchoverlap  ( LDRERR 103)
DYNAMIC LOADING UNRESOLVED EXTERNAL: unctrl  ( LDRERR 103)
DYNAMIC LOADING UNRESOLVED EXTERNAL: wvline  ( LDRERR 103)
Can't find 'boot_Curses' symbol in blib/arch/auto/Curses/Curses.sl
 at demo line 3
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at demo line 3.

So apparently it is having a problem resolving the calls to libcurses. Any
ideas on where I need to make changes to get this to work?

Regards,
Ernest Hill
eXegeSys, Inc.
144 S. 500 E.
SLC, UT 84109
(801) 799-0917
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