Short version: mutt wants a dynamic ncurses lib, but all I could find was a static one.
I cannot run mutt on Solaris 8. It configures, makes and installs fine, but when I try to run it, I get: ------------------------------------------------------- ld.so.1: mutt: fatal: libncurses.so.5: open failed: No such file or directory. Killed ------------------------------------------------------- The above error message is to be expected, since the dynamic library in question isn't present anywhere in my server. After that, I found an advise on mutt's web page in which they say that mutt needs the ncurses library available from GNU. I installed the GNU 5.2 library -which creates only a file called ncurses.a (static) and reinstalled mutt from scratch, even trying this command: ./configure --with-curses=/usr/local/lib/ Unfortunately, the mutt installation doesn't understand that all I have is an static library and the error message still prevents mutt from running: ------------------------------------------------------- ld.so.1: mutt: fatal: libncurses.so.5: open failed: No such file or directory. Killed ------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for your kind assistance, -Ramon F. Herrera
