Dear Fellow Monks,
I am attempting to install Curses on my system and getting compile time errors when running make. First I tried running it from

$ perl -MCPAN -e 'install Curses'
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and then tried building it manually and get the same results. My environment is as follows:

$ uname -a 
Linux my-dell-box 2.4.20-18.9 #1 Thu May 29 07:08:16 EDT 2003 i686 i68
+6 i386 GNU/Linux
$ perl -v 
 
This is perl, v5.8.0 built for i386-linux-thread-multi
(with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail)
 
[unimportant spew snipped]
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My first thought is that somehow this being a threaded Perl may somehow be messing with the build. If that is the case I am very willing to rip the Perl that comes with this system off of it and install one that I've built without the threading for my own purposes. However, I am looking at a much larger picture and since this is the version of Perl that comes with the corporate Linux standard desk/laptop build I'd rather fix the module installation issue.

The errors (that are important) that I'm getting are:

Curses.c: In function `c_sv2window':
Curses.c:275: warning: passing arg 1 of `Perl_sv_isa' from incompatibl
+e pointer type
Curses.c:275: warning: passing arg 2 of `Perl_sv_isa' from incompatibl
+e pointer type
Curses.c:275: too few arguments to function `Perl_sv_isa'
In file included from Curses.c:344:
CursesFun.c: In function `XS_Curses_newterm':
CursesFun.c:1279: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer ty
+pe
CursesFun.c:1280: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer ty
+pe
CursesFun.c: In function `XS_Curses_putwin':
CursesFun.c:3453: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer ty
+pe
CursesFun.c: In function `XS_Curses_getwin':
CursesFun.c:3472: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer ty
+pe
make: *** [Curses.o] Error 1
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There were other errors as well about bool being redifined but I don't think that has anything to do with it. The manual build was done via:

perl Makefile.PL FORMS MENUS GEN PANELS
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Thoughts anyone? Anybody else run into this?