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Id: 65762
Status: open
Priority: 0/
Queue: Curses
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Owner: Nobody in particular
Requestors: KENTNL [...] cpan.org
andrew.pennebaker [...] gmail.com
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Severity: Critical
Broken in: 1.31
Fixed in: (no value)
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  Wed Feb 16 02:57:22 2011 andrew.pennebaker [...] gmail.com - Ticket created
Subject: Curses fails to compile for ActiveState Perl
"cpan> install Curses" fails to compile. Specs: ActiveState Perl 5.12 MinGW 5.1.6 dmake 4.1pl1 The trace is too long to Mark from the Command Prompt, and '>' doesn't show much of it. My trace looks just like this one: http://www.mail-archive.com/cpan-testers@perl.org/msg345547.html
  Sat Feb 19 16:22:00 2011 GIRAFFED [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
On Wed Feb 16 02:57:22 2011, mcandre wrote: Show quoted text
> My trace looks just like this one: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/cpan-testers@perl.org/msg345547.html
In that case, the build fails because it cannot find <pdcurses.h>. The case uses Curses.pm 1.15, which expected <pdcurses.h>. But current code does not, so I doubt your failure was enough like this one to draw any conclusions.
  Sat Feb 19 16:22:02 2011 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Sat May 03 08:50:55 2014 KENTNL [...] cpan.org - Broken in 1.31 added
  Sat May 03 08:50:55 2014 KENTNL [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

I can confirm this behaviour for strawberry Perl 5.19.11 on Win32/64

I have not installed any additional Curses libraries on my system, and not sure if it should work out of the box or not.

However, if it does require user intervention, it should exit N/A during Makefile.PL ( the configure phase ) instead of bailing during either `build` or `test`

 

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  Sat May 03 08:55:39 2014 KENTNL [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

Bah, perhaps my comments were more relevant to the other similar issue #47785 , but they're so similar.

I guess my scenario is closer to this ActiveState bug, because the other example is running with Cygwin in scope, and that radically changes the likelihood of ncurses being available.

  Sat May 03 08:58:12 2014 KENTNL [...] cpan.org - Reference to cpan:47785 added
  Sat May 03 08:58:41 2014 KENTNL [...] cpan.org - Reference to cpan:47785 deleted
  Sat May 03 08:58:41 2014 KENTNL [...] cpan.org - Reference to https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=47785 added
  Sat May 03 09:13:41 2014 KENTNL [...] cpan.org - Requestor KENTNL added