On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Guy Santiglia wrote:

> I got rid of that old ncurses.h.  And it seems to be getting further
> along when building. But now it stops with this message:
>
>   ranlib ../lib/libncurses++.a
> cd ../objects; c++ -I../c++ -I../include -I. -DHAVE_CONFIG_H  -DNDEBUG -I.
> -I../include -I/usr/pkg/include -g -O2 -c ../c++/demo.cc
> c++ -o demo ../objects/demo.o -L../lib -L/usr/pkg/lib  -lncurses++
> -L/usr/pkg/lib ../lib/libform.la ../lib/libmenu.la ../lib/libpanel.la
> ../lib/libncurses.la   -Wl,-R/usr/pkg/lib -L/usr/pkg/lib -Wl,-R/usr/pkg/lib
> -L/usr/pkg/lib  -lg++ -lm
> ld: ../lib/libform.la: malformed input file (not rel or archive)
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> *** Error code 1
> 
>   I'm going to try installing the pkgsrc again instead of sup'ing.

I'm baffled. It built fine for me last month on NetBSD-1.4.1...

make deinstall && make clean && make clean-depends && make install

or

make clean-depends && make update

If that doesn't do it, please file a PR so someone who's more familiar
with ncurses can look at it.