On 03Jun2019 21:04, Frank Watt <youngoldbl...@gmail.com> wrote:
Despite the confusing name,
aptitude install lib64ncurses5-dev:i386
got past the curses error message. But then I got this:
checking tcbdb.h usability... no
checking tcbdb.h presence... no
checking for tcbdb.h... no
checking villa.h usability... no
checking villa.h presence... no
checking for villa.h... no
checking for vlopen in -lqdbm... no
checking for gdbm_open... no
checking for BerkeleyDB > 4.0... no
checking for mdb_env_create... no
checking kclangc.h usability... no
checking kclangc.h presence... no
checking for kclangc.h... no
configure: error: You need Tokyo Cabinet, Kyoto Cabinet, QDBM, GDBM,
LMDB or Berkeley DB4 for hcache
So I tried pasting that message into duckduckgo which came up first
with https://thomer.com/howtos/mutt_on_mac.html
The end of that page finishes:
The key to making the configure errors go away is including CPPFLAGS
and LDFLAGS on the command line when configuring mutt.
$ CPPFLAGS=-I/opt/local/include/ LDFLAGS=-L/opt/local/lib/ ./configure ...
I'd never thought of Mac users using mutt,
Oh, you cut me!
but is there any way I
could use that suggestion? I've had limited experience compiling
source code but there are others much simpler to do than this one.
Maybe it's tricky even for Debian geeks and that's why the .deb files
are so old.
That suggestion, out of the box, will not directly help you.
What it does is tell the configure script to reach into /opt/local for C
headers and libraries. On a Mac there are a few third party package
systems available (Fink, Homebrew and Macports), and Macports installs
packages in /opt/local, thus the path in the suggestion.
However, your Debian system should have access to almost all the
software you should need for a nice mutt build, you just have to fetch
it. Let's look...
My closest Debian like system is our home server, which is running
Ubuntu 16.04. So:
[~]borg*> apt-cache search gdbm|grep dev
libgdbm-dev - GNU dbm database routines (development files)
libtdb-dev - Trivial Database - development files
libtokyocabinet-dev - Tokyo Cabinet Database Libraries [development]
libntdb-dev - New Trivial Database - development files
Try this on your system. [...] Here's the output from a Debian 8.8
system:
libdbm-ocaml-dev - binding to the NDBM/GDBM Unix databases (development files)
libgdbm-dev - GNU dbm database routines (development files)
libntdb-dev - New Trivial Database - development files
libtdb-dev - Trivial Database - development files
libtokyocabinet-dev - Tokyo Cabinet Database Libraries [development]
So to get GDBM:
apt-get install libgdbm-dev
You could also get libtokyocabinet-dev it seems.
Have another review of the things configure says are not available and
do some "apt-cache search" commands for their names, further grepping
for dev to get the development files packages.
And you won't need to the CLFAGS= stuff because these packages will
install stuff in the standard places.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au>
