Subject: Re: mutt and "default" curses colour
To: Jonathan Perkin <sketch@rd.bbc.co.uk>
From: Grant Beattie <grant@grunta.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 10/15/2001 11:30:16
On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 01:09:27PM +0100, Jonathan Perkin wrote:

> Quickie - libcurses in the base system doesn't support "default"
> colour in mutt configuration to use the background colour in the
> terminal.  This can be solved by linking against either updated
> ncurses or libslang, but the mutt Makefiles don't provide for
> this currently.
> 
>  o Will system curses library be updated any time soon to
>    support this, or
> 
>  o Shall I send-pr and update for mutt pkgsrc to allow optional
>    linking against devel/ncurses or devel/libslang.

Even if you have ncurses installed, it will link with libcurses by
default.

If you set USE_NCURSES= in mail/mutt/Makefile, it will force linking
with ncurses.

g.