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

On Fri, Apr 03, 2026 at 02:48:23PM +0200, Dennis Preiser wrote:
>On Fri, Apr 03, 2026 at 06:53:57PM +0800, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
>> A workaround for now would be to just create a symlink under ~/sw/lib from
>> ncurses.so to your ncursesw.so file.
>
>Unfortunately, that doesn't work. There are a lot of missing symbols.

...

>ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture arm64
>
>It seems that the library in ~/sw/lib is being used, but the header file
>for the system-wide library. $NCURSES60 appears only there

Ah sorry.  Yes, the headers looked for depend on the so file found.  And 
your homedir installation only contains the ncursesw.h headers.

So, it seems like the only workaround, for Mutt's build system at least, 
is swapping the order of the libraries searched.

I'll put this on my todo list, after (hopefully) getting some feedback 
from the other devs about the potential gotcha's with making this 
change.

-- 
Kevin J. McCarthy
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