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

On Fri, Apr 10, 2026 at 09:32:56PM +0200, Clemens Lang wrote:
> > On 3. Apr 2026, at 12:24, Dennis Preiser <[email protected]> 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.
> 
> configure ncurses with --disable-lib-suffixes.

For me, mutt is the only program that has trouble finding/using the
library specified with '--with-curses=DIR'. I don't think it's due to
ncurses' configure arguments, but rather to the way mutt's configure
searches for and locates the curses libraries.

> For example, MacPorts uses these flags: https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/blob/master/devel/ncurses/Portfile#L34-L45

I don't use MacPorts, but after a quick look, it seems to be implemented
somewhat inconsistently. From the Portfiles:

mutt has

| depends_lib
| 	port:ncurses

and

| configure.args
| 	--with-curses=${prefix}

in contrast

vifm has

| depends_lib
| 	port:ncurses

but no

| configure.args
| 	 --with-curses=${prefix}

tin has

| depends_lib
| 	port:ncurses

and

| configure.args
| 	--with-screen=ncursesw

but no

| configure.args
| 	--with-curses-dir=DIR

And yes, vifm´s configure supports --with-curses=DIR, and tin´s supports
--with-screen=(termcap|terminfo|curses|ncurses|ncursesw|pdcurses) and
--with-curses-dir=DIR.

Dennis