I know this is a FAQ, but I tried everyhting in the FAQ itself and I couldn't
solve my problem.
I'm trying to compile mutt 1.2.5i on RedHat 6.0 with either ncurses or slang, I
don't care. I just want color! RedHat's mutt versions don't have color and so
I tried compiling it from the tarball on mutt.org. It compiles and runs fine,
but no color. Just black text on white background for any library, any #defines
I manipulate in acconfig.h, any terminal mode I want including linux, nothing
seems to work.
after configure runs, config.h includes HAVE_COLOR #defined in it. So I know
configure is working, and checking the source (specifically color.c) I don't
know what could not be working here.
I also tried compiling with slang and setting COLORTERM; no such luck.
Maybe I should just sneak onto the system in the middle of the night and
install Debian; it has a color mutt package :-) On that topic, I have been
able to get mutt to display color on the same terminal on the same machine
with the same $TERM when logged into my home machines with Debian and mutt.
I also just tried upgrading to ncurses 5.0 in case there was some
incompatibility; didn't work.
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"If your motherboard smells like carcinogens it's time to get a new
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-- Ben Roberts, refering to his SPARC
