Thanks for all the feedback about the building. I will try out what was suggested. One issue though: iconv. I don't want to use up my disk quota installing libiconv into my homedir. I don't see it anywhere on the system, but see an iconv binary in /usr/local/emul/linux/usr/bin/iconv/usr/local/emul/linux/usr/bin/iconv . This is a NetBSD system. mutt -v on their system gives:
System: NetBSD 1.5.2 (i386) [using ncurses 5.2] Compile options: DOMAIN="panix.com" +DEBUG -HOMESPOOL -USE_SETGID +USE_DOTLOCK -DL_STANDALONE -USE_FCNTL -USE_FLOCK -USE_POP +USE_IMAP -USE_GSS -USE_SSL -USE_SASL +HAVE_REGCOMP -USE_GNU_REGEX +HAVE_COLOR +HAVE_START_COLOR +HAVE_TYPEAHEAD +HAVE_BKGDSET +HAVE_CURS_SET +HAVE_META +HAVE_RESIZETERM +HAVE_PGP +BUFFY_SIZE -EXACT_ADDRESS -SUN_ATTACHMENT +ENABLE_NLS -LOCALES_HACK -HAVE_WC_FUNCS -HAVE_LANGINFO_CODESET ++HAVE_LANGINFO_YESEXPR +HAVE_ICONV -ICONV_NONTRANS +HAVE_GETSID -HAVE_GETADDRINFO ISPELL="/usr/local/bin/ispell" SENDMAIL="/usr/sbin/sendmail" MAILPATH="/var/mail" PKGDATADIR="/pkg/mutt-1.3.25/share/mutt" SYSCONFDIR="/pkg/mutt-1.3.25/libdata/mutt-1.3.25" EXECSHELL="/bin/sh" -MIXMASTER So any idea how they got iconv? I can't figure anything out. I tried --without-iconv , but compile still craps out saying it can't find iconv. Thanks. -Ken