Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2012 11:47:52 +0100 From: Chris Rees <crees@FreeBSD.org> To: Jamie Paul Griffin <jamie@kode5.net>, udo.schweigert@siemens.com Cc: FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Installing non-ports software into /usr/local Message-ID: <CADLo838sQ5rZ1j=z9eu5jrToYR2NgntLuVRBx0HdS=q6oUxnDA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20120930101614.GA13820@kontrol.kode5.net> References: <20120930101614.GA13820@kontrol.kode5.net>
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On 30 September 2012 11:16, Jamie Paul Griffin <jamie@kode5.net> wrote: > Hi > > I am having an issue with mutt 1.5.21. I have set up different colour sch= emes, etc. as people do. Anyway, I reinstalled it 2 days ago using the port= s system, because I wanted to link mutt to the ncurses port rather than the= system ncurses installation. After soing non of my colours show, only thos= e that are set from within my terminal emulator which is urxvt. Initially, = I had a problem during make(1) which related to the iconv library. I have i= conv set as an option in my kernel configuration. the error suggested somet= hing about using libiconv instead. > > Anyway, I managed to overcome that and build it and istall it again but w= ithout colour. I'm wondering if I could/should build it my self from source= and install it into /usr/local to see if that makes any difference. Would = doing that cause problems for the ports system? > > Any comments and advice are welcome. Best wishes, Jamie As long as you don't install it from the port, which would overwrite your version, there would be no trouble with this. If you come up with a solution, please send a PR in which the maintainer will I'm sure be glad to look at :) Chris
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