curses installation on osx

warren has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi,<br.

I'm trying to install curses using the cpan shell and install curses but I get

CursesFun.c:3472: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type make: *** Curses.o Error 1
/usr/bin/make -- NOT OK
Running make test
Can't test without successful make
Running make install
make had returned bad status, install seems impossible

Umm, ahh help? I've searched google and this site, I really do not know where to start.

Cheers,
Warren

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Re: curses installation on osx by Zaxo (Archbishop) on Apr 14, 2003 at 03:52 UTC
I published a patch for that set of errors here: Build Curses for Perl 5.8.0. After Compline, Zaxo	[reply]
Re: Re: curses installation on osx by warren (Initiate) on Apr 14, 2003 at 22:32 UTC
Thankyou both tachyon and Zaxo. I will post my follow up on the Build Curses for Perl 5.8.0 node. Thanks, Warren	[reply]
Re: curses installation on osx by tachyon (Chancellor) on Apr 14, 2003 at 02:00 UTC
There are 4 calls being made by CPAN: `$ perl Makefile.PL $ make $ make test $ make install` [download] The first error you get is because make is failing to compile the C code in Curses.c into Curses.o by the look of it. make test and make install naturally fail as you have no binary due to the earlier failure. To diagnose the exact issue(s) download the latest tar.gz from CPAN, untar it and go through the motions. See A guide to installing Modules if you are unfamiliar with the process. Then post the exact compilation errors here and the monks may be able to help you. You will need to specify what version of gcc you are using, Perl version and all the compiler output`$ gcc -v; perl -v; perl Makefile.PL; make` should do the trick if you do that in the Curses-1.06/ dir that the distro (probably) untars into. cheers tachyon s&&rsenoyhcatreve&&&s&n.+t&"$'$`$\"$\&"&ee&&y&srve&&d&&print	[reply] [d/l] [select]


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