Re: Compiling a newer version than the latest .deb package

2019-06-03 Thread Frank Watt
Ken Moffat wrote: |Hi Frank, | | I assume you probably won't get this mail (gmail dislikes my mails |from this address), but just in case ... | At least it got to the archives. |[...] |> p lib32ncurses5 - shared libraries for |> terminal handling (32-bit) |>

Re: Compiling a newer version than the latest .deb package

2019-06-03 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 03Jun2019 21:04, Frank Watt 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 checki

Re: Compiling a newer version than the latest .deb package

2019-06-03 Thread Kevin J. McCarthy
On Mon, Jun 03, 2019 at 12:24:33PM +1200, Frank Watt wrote: configure: error: no curses library found I think Ken and Cameron covered the bases. However, on Debian based systems another good thing to run is apt-get build-dep mutt It's not foolproof because of the version disparity and poss

Re: Compiling a newer version than the latest .deb package

2019-06-03 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
On Sun, Jun 02, 2019 at 21:51:25 +1200, Frank Watt wrote: > On 2/06/19 9:07 PM, Jens John wrote:> On Sun, 2 Jun 2019, at 05:36, > > (Why not just upgrade your Debian or Ubuntu release?) > > There's nothing newer I can find: > https://sources.debian.org/patches/mutt/1.5.23-3/ > A better search fo

Re: Compiling a newer version than the latest .deb package

2019-06-03 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
On Mon, Jun 03, 2019 at 06:50:15 -0700, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote: > On Mon, Jun 03, 2019 at 12:24:33PM +1200, Frank Watt wrote: > >configure: error: no curses library found > > I think Ken and Cameron covered the bases. However, on Debian based > systems another good thing to run is > apt-get b