There was a hint on macosxhints.com a couple of days ago about
getting Curses installed under Panther. It rang some very familiar
bells for me, so I think the hint paraphrased something I'd tripped
across earlier (after some googling).
To save the lookup, here's the prescription posted:
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I was just compiling the Curses perl module on my mac and found I needed to
change two files to get it to work. First, copy hints/c-freebsd.ncurses.h to
c-config.h, and add the following lines to the end of c-config.h:
#undef instr
#undef bool
Second, apply this patch to Curses.c by using the patch command, or just
manually editing Perl_sv_isa to sv_isa as shown below.
*** Curses.c Wed Jul 25 10:10:38 2001
--- Curses.fixed.c Wed Sep 8 11:01:53 2004
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*** 273,277 ****
int argnum;
{
! if (Perl_sv_isa(sv, "Curses::Window")) {
WINDOW *ret = (WINDOW *)SvIV((SV*)SvRV(sv));
return ret;
--- 273,277 ----
int argnum;
{
! if (sv_isa(sv, "Curses::Window")) {
WINDOW *ret = (WINDOW *)SvIV((SV*)SvRV(sv));
return ret;
And that's it. Run perl Makefile.PL, make, and make install as usual.
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Cheers,
Paul
