Re: mutt on macOS and --with-curses=DIR

[Fabian Groffen via Mutt-dev]

On 12-04-2026 12:54:42 +0200, Dennis Preiser wrote:
> ncurses:
> 
> dennis@coredump:~/src/ncurses-6.6-20260411% ./configure --prefix=${MY_PREFIX} 
> --mandir=${MY_PREFIX}/share/man --with-shared --without-debug --enable-widec 
> --disable-home-terminfo --enable-sigwinch --without-ada --disable-rpath 
> --enable-colorfgbg --without-tests --with-pcre2 --with-pkg-config 
> --enable-pc-files

Add --enable-overwrite here, so you get libcurses symlink.

> dennis@coredump:~% ls -l ~/sw/lib/*curses*
> -rw-r--r--@ 1 dennis  staff  111536 Apr 12 11:15 
> /Users/dennis/sw/lib/libncurses++w.a
> -rwxr-xr-x@ 1 dennis  staff  364096 Apr 12 11:15 
> /Users/dennis/sw/lib/libncursesw.6.dylib
> -rw-r--r--@ 1 dennis  staff  642392 Apr 12 11:15 
> /Users/dennis/sw/lib/libncursesw.a
> lrwxr-xr-x@ 1 dennis  staff      19 Apr 12 11:15 
> /Users/dennis/sw/lib/libncursesw.dylib -> libncursesw.6.dylib

As this listing indicates.

ncurses tries to "protect" you here, but in reality you really want to
"overwrite" the host/system ncurses.

lrwxr-xr-x 1 fabian staff 18 Feb  9 18:29 libncurses.dylib -> libncurses.6.dylib

Fabian

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