diff --git a/devel/p5-Curses/Makefile b/devel/p5-Curses/Makefile
index e15a954f015b..18ccc32c7060 100644
--- a/devel/p5-Curses/Makefile
+++ b/devel/p5-Curses/Makefile
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # $FreeBSD$
 
 PORTNAME=	Curses
-PORTVERSION=	1.36
+PORTVERSION=	1.37
 CATEGORIES=	devel perl5
 MASTER_SITES=	CPAN
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	p5-
@@ -28,8 +28,7 @@ NCURSESW_CONFIGURE_ENV=		CURSES_LDFLAGS="-L/usr/lib/ -lncursesw" \
 NCURSESW_CONFIGURE_ENV_OFF=	CURSES_LDFLAGS="-L/usr/lib/ -lncurses"
 
 pre-configure:
-	@${LN} -sf ${WRKSRC}/hints/c-freebsd.ncurses.h \
-		${WRKSRC}/c-config.h
+	@${LN} -fs ${WRKSRC}/hints/c-freebsd.ncurses.h ${WRKSRC}/c-config.h
 	@${MKDIR} ${WRKSRC}/usr/include/ncurses
 .for i in form.h ncurses.h menu.h panel.h
 	@${LN} -fs /usr/include/${i} ${WRKSRC}/usr/include/ncurses/${i}
diff --git a/devel/p5-Curses/distinfo b/devel/p5-Curses/distinfo
index e176b10a9f3d..c395429c5102 100644
--- a/devel/p5-Curses/distinfo
+++ b/devel/p5-Curses/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1471948928
-SHA256 (Curses-1.36.tar.gz) = a414795ba031c5918c70279fe534fee594a96ec4b0c78f44ce453090796add64
-SIZE (Curses-1.36.tar.gz) = 135049
+TIMESTAMP = 1601754208
+SHA256 (Curses-1.37.tar.gz) = 74707ae3ad19b35bbefda2b1d6bd31f57b40cdac8ab872171c8714c88954db20
+SIZE (Curses-1.37.tar.gz) = 135763