Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 16:43:25 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: "David J. Kanter" <djkanter@nwu.edu> Cc: FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, Willem Brown <willem@brwn.org>, "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FIXED Re: Is Mutt broken? Message-ID: <20000612164324.E18462@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <20000612180928.A6505@localhost.localdomain>; from djkanter@nwu.edu on Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 06:09:28PM -0500 References: <20000612064752.A905@localhost.localdomain> <20000612180928.A6505@localhost.localdomain>
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* David J. Kanter <djkanter@nwu.edu> [000612 16:15] wrote: > On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 06:47:52AM -0500, David J. Kanter wrote: > > 2. Colors don't work. I get error messages about the color-definition lines > > in my .muttrc, but color-definition syntax hasn't changed. > ---end quoted text--- > > I'm using FreeBSD 3.4, and saw how to fix this problem on comp.mail.mutt. > The answer is from joachim.riedel@gmx.net > > "I had the same problem after compiling Mutt for FreeBSD 3.4. It seems that > Mutt since Version 1.1.14 (and therefore also 1.2) checks in configure for > some ncurses-functions. I recompiled it forcing HAVE_COLOR in config.h. > FreeBSD 4.0 uses a newer version of ncurses and the problem is gone. > > "If HAVE_COLOR is undefined mutt will give you the mentioned error. > > "I suggest to convince your admin to check for HAVE_COLOR and recompile > mutt, maybe he needs a new GNU ncurses lib... > > "Hope that will help, > Joachim" > > So I (Dave) did the following for the mutt port: > 1. make all > 2. edit config.h so that HAVE_COLOR is #defined > 3. make install Using SLANG helped me on older FreeBSD versions. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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