On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 08:47:59PM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 03:49:31PM +0100, Lars Hecking wrote:
> > Thomas E. Dickey writes:
> > > On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Chris Green wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 10:43:40AM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> > >
> > > > I don't really understand why mutt reported:-
> > > > System: SunOS 5.6 [using ncurses 5.0]
> > > >
> > > > but was apparently only actually finding the ordinary, old, curses
> > > > library. Even adding the --with-curses=DIR option didn't get
> > > > configure to set HAVE_USE_DEFAULT_COLORS.
> > >
> > > If you are compiling with cc (not gcc), and have installed ncurses as
> > > "-lcurses" (no overwrite), then the configure script can be confused,
> > > seeing the headers and library from ncurses and Sun's curses. In my
> > > own configure scripts I've made fixes to (mostly) iron this out, but
> > > mutt's not my script...
> >
> > I'd need a complete configure transscript, config.cache, config.log
> > to attempt fixing this.
>
> I'll maybe try and provide you with this in due course but it'll
> probably be Monday before I get round to it.
>
It was my mistake and/or a misunderstanding of the ./configure
parameters.
I had put --with-curses=/usr/chris/lib, but I *should* have put
--with-curses=/usr/chris. The libncurses.a file is in /usr/chris/lib
but of course this means that ncurses was 'installed in' /usr/chris.
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