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

On Fri, Apr 03, 2026 at 10:01:57AM +0200, Dennis Preiser wrote:
>On Fri, Apr 03, 2026 at 10:36:59AM +0800, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 02, 2026 at 07:51:44PM +0200, Dennis Preiser wrote:
>> > 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?
>
>No, I see it - it's there. My $HOME is /Users/dennis and it appears in
>every Makefile after configure in the CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS variables, so
>it's also included in the calls to clang (no gcc here).

[...]

>The system-wide library here is libncurses, but the library in $HOME/sw
>is libncursesw. I think it should therefore be -lncursesw in MUTTLIBS.

Ahh... I see.  It turns out the configure.ac is checking for ncurses 
first, and then ncursesw:

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

So it's finding the system "ncurses", and then saying 'okay I'm good'.

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

You'll need to have autoconf and those utils installed though, and use 
the 'prepare' script in place of you configure invocation...  If that's 
not feasible, let me know and I'll regen configure and email it to you 
directly.

-- 
Kevin J. McCarthy
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