[GnuCOBOL-users] Strange syntax error

[Leslie Turriff]

Hi,
        It's been a while since I tinkered with GnuCOBOL (back when it was 
OpenCOBOL, 
actually), so I might be missing something really simple here.
        I'm trying to install the cobcurses package on my OpenSuSE Linux x86_64 
system, and getting these errors.  The source code looks simple enough, so 
I'm not sure what's causing them.

Source code:

~/Downloads/Packages/Non-RPMs/Linux/cobcurses/src
$ head -n24 lib/libcobcurses.cob |cat -n
     1  *>*****************************************************************
     2  *>
     3  *>     LIBCOBCURSES : CODE FOR SHARED LIBRARY
     4  *>
     5  *>     Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
     6  *>
     7  *>*****************************************************************
     8
     9  *>*****************************************************************
    10  *>     INITIALIZATION ROUTINE "libcobcurses" :
    11  *>*****************************************************************
    12
    13  IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
    14  PROGRAM-ID. libcobcurses.
    15
    16  DATA DIVISION.
    17  WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.
    18
    19  01  NC-COBCURSES-EXIT.
    20      10  NC-INSTALL-FLAG                 PIC 9999 COMP-5 VALUE 0.
    21  01  NC-EXIT-PROC                        USAGE IS PROGRAM-POINTER.
    22  01  WS-COBCURSES-NORECOVERY-VALUE       PIC X VALUE 'N'.
    23
    24  LINKAGE SECTION.

        The make process does this:

cobc -b -Wall -Wno-call-params  -std=cobol85 -I../copybk -free 
libcobcurses.cob cobcurses.o terminal.o term_curses.o term_curses_con
v.o term_curses_menu.o cc_menu.o environ.o misc.o dynstr.o pathname.o fcomp2.o 
ecomp1.o ecomp2.o expon.o ecvt.o units.o eunits.o enu
mber.o cobmenu.o cobtrace.o -L/usr/local/lib64  -lncurses

and produces error messages like these.  Most of them appear to be cascade 
errors caused by the first on on line 20. The COBCURSG.cbl copybook is quite 
large, and the compiler gives up after a while and the make fails.

libcobcurses.cob:20: error: syntax error, unexpected Identifier, expecting 
EXTERNAL or EXTERNAL-FORM or GLOBAL or IDENTIFIED
libcobcurses.cob:21: error: syntax error, unexpected Identifier
../copybk/COBCURSG.cbl:12: error: syntax error, unexpected Identifier, 
expecting EXTERNAL or EXTERNAL-FORM or GLOBAL or IDENTIFIED

        I can't see what's causing this.  I'm attaching the complete program 
and 
copybook sources and the make log in hopes you can see what's wrong.

Leslie

libcobcurses.cob
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COBCURSG.cbl
Description: Text document

make.log
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