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

On Sun, Apr 12, 2026 at 01:29:45PM +0200, Fabian Groffen via Mutt-dev wrote:
> On 12-04-2026 12:54:42 +0200, Dennis Preiser wrote:
> > ncurses:
> > 
> > dennis@coredump:~/src/ncurses-6.6-20260411% ./configure --prefix=${MY_PREFIX} --mandir=${MY_PREFIX}/share/man --with-shared --without-debug --enable-widec --disable-home-terminfo --enable-sigwinch --without-ada --disable-rpath --enable-colorfgbg --without-tests --with-pcre2 --with-pkg-config --enable-pc-files
> 
> Add --enable-overwrite here, so you get libcurses symlink.

I think that only applies to header files.

|   --disable-overwrite     put headers in subdir, omit link to -lcurses


With --enable-overwrite, the header files are installed directly under
~/sw/include instead of in a subdirectory ~/sw/include/ncursesw.

This doesn't change the result.

% otool -L mutt
mutt:
	/usr/lib/libncurses.5.4.dylib (compatibility version 5.4.0, current version 5.4.0)
	/Users/dennis/sw/lib/libz.1.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.3.2)
	/Users/dennis/sw/lib/libssl.3.dylib (compatibility version 3.0.0, current version 3.0.0)
	/Users/dennis/sw/lib/libcrypto.3.dylib (compatibility version 3.0.0, current version 3.0.0)
	/usr/lib/libsasl2.2.dylib (compatibility version 3.0.0, current version 3.15.0)
	/Users/dennis/sw/lib/liblmdb.dylib (compatibility version 0.0.0, current version 0.0.0)
	/usr/lib/libiconv.2.dylib (compatibility version 7.0.0, current version 7.0.0)
	/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1356.0.0)

> ncurses tries to "protect" you here, but in reality you really want to
> "overwrite" the host/system ncurses.
> 
> lrwxr-xr-x 1 fabian staff 18 Feb  9 18:29 libncurses.dylib -> libncurses.6.dylib

% ls -l ~/sw/lib/*curs*
-rw-r--r--@ 1 dennis  staff  111536 Apr 12 14:05 /Users/dennis/sw/lib/libncurses++w.a
-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 dennis  staff  364096 Apr 12 14:01 /Users/dennis/sw/lib/libncursesw.6.dylib
-rw-r--r--@ 1 dennis  staff  642392 Apr 12 14:05 /Users/dennis/sw/lib/libncursesw.a
lrwxr-xr-x@ 1 dennis  staff      19 Apr 12 14:01 /Users/dennis/sw/lib/libncursesw.dylib -> libncursesw.6.dylib

Dennis