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

On Fri, Apr 03, 2026 at 12:24:05PM +0200, Dennis Preiser wrote:
>On Fri, Apr 03, 2026 at 06:11:38PM +0800, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
>> 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'm trying to figure that out.
>
>> I have to think a bit before swapping the order for everyone.  Can anyone
>> think of a downside?
>
>I wouldn't just reverse the order. If someone has a system-wide
>"ncursesw", that would always take precedence. I think that with
>"--with-curses=DIR", that "DIR" should be searched first.

That's what the -I and -L flags should be doing.  They are searched 
before the system includes/libraries.  But because your ~/sw/lib didn't 
have a ncurses.so file, mutt found the system ncurses.so file and used 
that instead.

A workaround for now would be to just create a symlink under ~/sw/lib 
from ncurses.so to your ncursesw.so file.

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