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

On Thu, Apr 02, 2026 at 07:51:44PM +0200, Dennis Preiser wrote:
>Among others, I use the following configure options:
>
>--prefix=$HOME/sw --with-curses=$HOME/sw
>
>Unfortunately, configure doesn't seem to be able to find ncurses in
>$HOME/sw. It finds the system-wide ncurses library instead, and later
>mutt is linked against that one.

So, to be clear, you don't see -I$HOME/sw/include in the various gcc 
lines during compilation and you don't see -L$HOME/sw/lib in the final 
mutt compilation line?

>It looks like --with-ncurses=DIR is being ignored for some reason, or at
>least isn't having the desired effect.
>
>If it helps, I can send the config.log; it's about 1 MiB in size.

If you want, you could include just a portion.  Trim the front until the 
first line with "waddnwstr", and then trim from the mention of 
"typeahead" onward.

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Kevin J. McCarthy
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