On Wed, Jun 3, 2009, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > What it's compiling against and what it's linking against could be two > different things. Mutt gets the version number from the ncurses header > files; but it's quite possible that those headers are mis-matched to > the library that was actually used to link against. > > Assuming you don't know: compiling most large software (like mutt) is > a two-step process. First, each source file (e.g. a ".c" file) is > compiled into an object file (a ".o" file), then the object files are > linked together along with any libraries that are needed to create an > executable binary (the program itself). People who have multiple > versions of any given library often get themselves into trouble by > compiling with headers that don't match the libraries. For example, > you could compile against version 2.6 and then link against 2.4. The > program would think it was using 2.6, but since it was linked against > 2.4, would run into weirdness.
Ah, crap. :) This on panix.com servers. I used --with-curses=/usr/local/ncurses-5.6 They are really good, so I assume it is correct. There is also an ncurses-5.4 install under /usr/local. Either way, there is a patch I used for the last version of mutt I was using, 1.5.10. "5patch-1.5.1.nr.indicator_not_bright". This was to make any text under the indicator bar not bold. It still works, and interestintly enough, also fixes this issue. -Ken
