From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 12 16:43:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E322E37B7B0; Mon, 12 Jun 2000 16:43:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e5CNhPk23364; Mon, 12 Jun 2000 16:43:25 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 16:43:25 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: "David J. Kanter" Cc: FreeBSD questions , Willem Brown , "David O'Brien" Subject: Re: FIXED Re: Is Mutt broken? Message-ID: <20000612164324.E18462@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20000612064752.A905@localhost.localdomain> <20000612180928.A6505@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000612180928.A6505@localhost.localdomain>; from djkanter@nwu.edu on Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 06:09:28PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * David J. Kanter [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