On Oct 05 at 12:29, Thomas Dickey spoke: > but what does the output of the configure script look like? For example, > the related section when I configure: > > checking for ispell... /usr/bin/ispell > checking for initscr in -lncurses... yes > checking for ncurses.h... yes > checking for start_color declaration... yes > checking for typeahead declaration... yes > checking for bkgdset declaration... yes > checking for curs_set declaration... yes > checking for meta declaration... yes > checking for use_default_colors declaration... yes > checking for resizeterm declaration... yes > checking for ANSI C header files... yes > > (the "use_default_colors" line is needed).
loading cache ./config.cache checking for a BSD compatible install... (cached) /usr/bin/install -c [...] checking for meta declaration... (cached) yes checking for use_default_colors declaration... (cached) no [...] Hm. In deed it seems to be off. Does it depend on the ncurses configuration? I just did: ./configure --prefix=/usr/opt/ncurses-5.2 -Hanspeter
