ABI version 6 is not compatible with version 5 (in particular, color handling changed). It is not safe to just use whatever ncurses happens to be around.
On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 2:27 PM, mark carter <alt.mcar...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm running: > This is Rakudo version 2017.01 built on MoarVM version 2017.01 > implementing Perl 6.c. > under Arch. > > When I do > $perl6 starfield.pl6 > I get: > Cannot locate native library 'libncursesw.so.5': libncursesw.so.5: cannot > open shared object file: No such file or directory > > That is because version 6 of the ncurses library is installed, rather than > 5. > -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net