Hi I'm trying hard to package perl-term-readline-gnu but have failed so far. :D See the attached patch for my addition to perl-build-system that did not help. The Makefile in the source says: # Usage: perl Makefile.PL [--prefix=...] [--includedir=...] [--libdir=...] # [OPTIMIZE=...] The build failure (with or without my modifications to the build-system) is: starting phase `configure' running `perl' with arguments ("Makefile.PL" "PREFIX=/gnu/store/w4wb4wd1kjj6gmxlix0i3jj47v0izijh-perl-term-readline-gnu-1.35" "INSTALLDIRS=site" "NO_PERLLOCAL=1") Could not find neither libtermcap.a, libncurses.a, or libcurses. Backtrace: 4 (primitive-load "/gnu/store/vgfkdlnwks28vk50mg0xjl8iaf9…") In ice-9/eval.scm: 191:35 3 (_ _) In srfi/srfi-1.scm: 640:9 2 (for-each # …) In /gnu/store/wy2ja4vrrnakwhabsn87ngsb3bqqm5fx-module-import/guix/build/gnu-build-system.scm: 799:31 1 (_ _) In /gnu/store/wy2ja4vrrnakwhabsn87ngsb3bqqm5fx-module-import/guix/build/utils.scm: 616:6 0 (invoke _ . _) /gnu/store/wy2ja4vrrnakwhabsn87ngsb3bqqm5fx-module-import/guix/build/utils.scm:616:6: In procedure invoke: Throw to key `srfi-34' with args `(#)'. note: keeping build directory `/tmp/guix-build-perl-term-readline-gnu-1.35.drv-17' builder for `/gnu/store/n6dcbwrfag9klwysrfdkj2j05cr9710i-perl-term-readline-gnu-1.35.drv' failed with exit code 1 build of /gnu/store/n6dcbwrfag9klwysrfdkj2j05cr9710i-perl-term-readline-gnu-1.35.drv failed View build log at '/var/log/guix/drvs/n6/dcbwrfag9klwysrfdkj2j05cr9710i-perl-term-readline-gnu-1.35.drv.bz2'. cannot build derivation `/gnu/store/pz0zrnpsvip0yxyd18cjazibsrlpf29h-youtube-viewer-cli-3.4.1.drv': 1 dependencies couldn't be built guix build: error: build failed: build of `/gnu/store/pz0zrnpsvip0yxyd18cjazibsrlpf29h-youtube-viewer-cli-3.4.1.drv' failed -- Cheers Swedebugia