On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 11:34:45AM -0600, Vincent Danen wrote:
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1262377 Jun 21 11:29 /usr/bin/mutt*
> -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mail 36607 Jun 21 11:29 /usr/bin/mutt_dotlock*
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6668 Jun 21 11:29 /usr/bin/muttbug*
>
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 418000 Jun 21 11:24 /usr/bin/mutt*
> -rwxr-sr-x 1 root root 7588 Jun 21 11:24 /usr/bin/mutt_dotlock*
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6668 Jun 21 11:23 /usr/bin/muttbug*
>
> Anyone know why there's such a discrepancy? I think the RPM might be
> stripping the binaries but I don't know if that would make such a big
> difference...
I think it could. Try to strip your binaries and look at their sizes
then. (That's only 3x difference, C++ programs may decrease in size ten
times after stripping.)
> System: Linux 2.2.15-4mdk [using slang 10400]
>
> I also still have a problem with colors, regardless of which binary I
> use. My color config looks like:
[...]
> When I comment it all out, then I get mono but I can see what I'm
> doing. Otherwise the colors are severely messed up. Any ideas about
> this one? The one thing I like about mutt is the color support, but
> it kinda needs to work too... =(
This is Unix. Extreme flexibility and many possible points of failure.
Your terminal program could be buggy. It could have different RGB
values assigned to colour numbers. Its terminfo description may be
wrong (e.g. earlier versions of Eterm specified setf=/setb= instead of
setaf=/setab=). Your $TERM may not match your terminal program (all
those xterm clones usually are different in this regard, and xterm
itself has many versions.) This might be a bug in slang/ncurses (even
the latest stable ncurses version (5.0) is buggy). This might be a bug
in Mutt (unlikely). Several of the above may be true.
I've had *lots* and *lots* of problems with Mutt and colours. All
investigations and lots of time spent debugging them showed that the
problems weren't Mutt's fault. I finally fixed my terminfo and settled
on ncurses 5.0, since it distored my colours less than slang or other
ncurses versions. YMMV.
(I've been told that latest ncurses developement versions have my
problem fixed. I still haven't tried them...)
Marius Gedminas
--
If it wasn't for C, we'd be using BASI, PASAL and OBOL
