Hi,

I don't understand why the attached patch fails with the following
output, the only explanation I have is that gcc or ncurses lacks
something the test which then runs gcc expects.

gcc -c
-I/gnu/store/xl19qrfzga52vrvp4ncccwjlnrjqwj95-ncurses-6.0/include
-I/gnu/store/xl19qrfzga52vrvp4ncccwjlnrjqwj95-ncurses-6.0/include
-I/gnu/store/xl19qrfzga52vrvp4ncccwjlnrjqwj95-ncurses-6.0/include
-I/gnu/store/xl19qrfzga52vrvp4ncccwjlnrjqwj95-ncurses-6.0/include
-fwrapv -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector-strong
-I/gnu/store/m9vxvhdj691bq1f85lpflvnhcvrdilih-glibc-2.23/include
-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -O2
-DVERSION=\"1.36\" -DXS_VERSION=\"1.36\" -fPIC
"-I/gnu/store/7nfjg3f2c4s0jpz3vqh3iqdn9j1c3prq-perl-5.22.1/lib/perl5/5.22.1/x86_64-linux/CORE"
Curses.c
Curses.c:199:8: error: unknown type name ‘FIELD’
static FIELD *
^
Curses.c: In function ‘c_sv2field’:
Curses.c:205:13: error: ‘FIELD’ undeclared (first use in this
function)
return (FIELD *)SvIV((SV*)SvRV(sv));
^
Curses.c:205:13: note: each undeclared
identifier is reported only once for each
function it appears in
Curses.c:205:20: error: expected expression
before ‘)’ token
return (FIELD *)SvIV((SV*)SvRV(sv));
^


etc... run the build yourself to see the full output.