Re: mutt on macOS and --with-curses=DIR

[Kevin J. McCarthy]

On Fri, Apr 03, 2026 at 12:00:27PM +0200, Dennis Preiser wrote:

On Fri, Apr 03, 2026 at 05:25:10PM +0800, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:

If you don't mind, would you try compiling from the git 'stable' branch, but
changing the check above on line 336 to reverse the order:

        for lib in ncursesw ncurses
        do
                AC_CHECK_LIB($lib, waddnwstr, [cf_ncurses="$lib"; break])
        done

Yes, I can confirm that it works that way.

Okay so at least there is an explanation.





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The only question is... why didn't your installation of ncursesw at least create stubs for ncurses too? Most ncursesw installs will create ncurses.so symlinks or files containing something like "INPUT(-lncursesw)" to point to the ncursesw so files. I have to think a bit before swapping the order for everyone. Can anyone think of a downside?

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