Re: mutt with ncurses on solaris
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Rocco Rutte wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just wanted to compile mutt on solaris 9, the build process ran fine,
> but the linker refused to do its work. The symbols which could not be
> resolved were ncurses (e.g. the solaris ncurses lib exports 'initscr' and
> mutt wants to link 'initscr32', etc.). I remembered that in any previous
> attempts I had to build with slang, the usual system's mutt is slang-
> linked, too. So, do I always have to link with slang instead of ncurses
> on solaris (maybe broken ncurses?) or is it just this and all the other
> times?
no - it's a well-known (apparently to everyone except the sun freeware
packager) problem with the sun freeware package. It installs ncurses
without configuring using the "--disable-overwrite" option.
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