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First time module installation - questions Monty 04-17-2008
Posted by Monty on April 17, 2008, 9:26 am
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I've downloaded the Curses-1.23 module from CPAN and am attempting to
install it on my Solaris 8 system. I've not installed Perl modules
before and I'm looking for some clarification on instructions in the
included INSTALL file that comes with the module.

Evidently I need to set in my environment or on the command line a few
variables: CURSES_CFLAGS and CURSES_LDFLAGS to point to where the C
ncurses libraries and headers are. I'm a bit at sea over the exact
syntax of these lines. I have Ncurses installed in /usr/local/lib
which means I have /usr/local/lib/libncurses* files and a /usr/local/
include/ncurses directory with various header files. So I guess I'm
asking if I have the syntax of the variables right when I enter:

setenv CURSES_CFLAGS "-I/usr/local/include/ncurses"
setenv CURSES_LDFLAGS "-L/usr/local/lib -lncurses"

(That's a capital "eye" on the first line and a lower case "L" on the
second one, in front of ncurses)


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