On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 11:28:55AM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> As Sven just pointed out I have been using rather old versions of mutt
> I have upgraded all my mutts (four of them) to version 1.4i. All of
> the Linux ones were no problem, just ./configure with the required
> options, make and install and it worked like clockwork.
>
> However the Solaris 2.6 one is proving a bit more difficult.
>
> First it didn't add '-liconv' to the Makefile line for linking, I fixed
> that by adding it manually to the Makefile.
>
> Secondly, and more significant, is that colours are not working
> correctly any more. When mutt loads it complains:-
>
> Error in /home/chris/.mutt/muttrc, line 27: default: no such color
> Error in /home/chris/.mutt/muttrc, line 28: default: no such color
> ...
> ...
> etc.
>
> I'm using ncurses 5.0 on both the Solaris version and the Linux
> versions and the 'default' colour works fine on the Linux versions.
> I have a sneaking feeling that I remember having this problem before
> but unfortunately I can't remember how to fix it.
>
It's OK, I've found the problem, it's to do with the (rather broken)
way that ./configure and LD_LIBRARY_PATH interact with each other.
I have installed ncurses and iconv on my desktop Sun sparc myself, I
have a directory I can use on a local disk called /proj/chris for this
sort of stuff. Thus the ncurses and iconv libraries are in
/proj/chris/lib. I have the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable set
to point to /proj/chris/lib.
My original ./configure was:-
./configure --prefix=/proj/chris --enable-pop --enable-imap
This worked OK except that the link line in the makefile didn't have
an explicit -liconv line (though configure had found iconv OK!), on
adding this it linked OK and mutt reported it had ncurses 5, but it
didn't know about default colors.
I then tried:-
./configure --prefix=/proj/chris --enable-pop --enable-imap
--with-curses=/proj/chris --with-iconv=/proj/chris
This produced a compile error! :-
In file included from ../mutt.h:51,
from auth.c:23:
../charset.h:39: parse error before `ICONV_CONST'
So I then tried:-
./configure --prefix=/proj/chris --enable-pop --enable-imap
--with-curses=/proj/chris
and this finally worked OK producing a mutt that knows about ncurses
default colours.
Sorry if this should really be in the developers' list.
--
Chris Green ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
