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Supported platforms
===================
Mutt has been reported to compile and run under the following Unix operating
systems:
AIX
BSDI
Convex
Data General Unix (DG/UX)
Digital Unix (OSF/1)
DYNIX/ptx
FreeBSD
HP-UX
IRIX
Linux
Atari MiNT
MkLinux
NetBSD
QNX
SCO Unix 3.2v4/5
Solaris
SunOS
Ultrix
UnixWare
- An ANSI C compiler (such as gcc) is required.
- You must also have a SysV compatible curses library, or you must
install either
GNU ncurses, ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/
or
S-Lang, ftp://space.mit.edu/pub/davis/slang/
Installation
============
Installing Mutt is rather painless through the use of the GNU
autoconf package. Simply untar the Mutt distribution, and run the
``configure'' script. In most cases, it will automatically determine
everything it needs to know in order to compile. However, there are
a few options to ``configure'' to help it out, or change the default
behavior:
--prefix=DIR
install Mutt in DIR instead of /usr/local
--with-sharedir=DIR
specify where to put architecture independent data files
--with-curses=DIR
use the curses lib in DIR/lib. If you have ncurses, ``configure''
will automatically look in /usr/include/ncurses for the include
files.
--with-slang[=DIR]
use the S-Lang library instead of ncurses. This library seems to
work better for some people because it is less picky about proper
termcap entries than ncurses. It is recommended that you use at
*least* version 0.99-38 with Mutt.
--with-mailpath=DIR
specify where the spool mailboxes are located on your system
--with-homespool[=FILE]
treat file in the user's home directory as the spool mailbox. Note
that this is *not* the full pathname, but relative to the user's
home directory. Defaults to "mailbox" if FILE is not specified.
--enable-pop
enable POP3 support
--with-rx
use GNU rx instead of local regexp routines. Many systems don't
have the POSIX compliant regcomp/regexec/regfree routines, so this
provides a way to support them.
--enable-flock
use flock() to lock files.
--disable-fcntl
by default, Mutt uses fcntl() to lock files. Over NFS this can
result in poor performance on read/write. Note that using this
option could be dangerous if dotlocking is also disabled.
--enable-nfs-fix
some implementations of NFS do not always write the
atime/mtime of small files. This means that Mutt's ``mailboxes''
feature does not always work properly, as it uses these
attributes to work out whether the file has new mail. This
option enables a workaround to this bug.
--enable-locales-fix
on some systems, the result of isprint() can't be used reliably
to decide which characters are printable, even if you set the
LANG environment variable. If you set this option, Mutt will
assume all characters in the ISO-8859-* range are printable. If
you leave it unset, Mutt will attempt to use isprint() if either
of the environment variables LANG, LC_ALL or LC_CTYPE is set,
and will revert to the ISO-8859-* range if they aren't.
--with-exec-shell=SHELL
on some versions of unix, /bin/sh has a bug that makes using emacs
with mutt very difficult. If you have the problem that whenever
you press control-G in emacs, mutt and emacs become very confused,
you may want to try using a Bourne-derived shell other than
/bin/sh here. Some shells that may work are bash, zsh, and ksh.
C shells such as csh and tcsh will amost certainly not work right.
Note that this option is unrelated to what shell mutt gives you
when you press '!'. Only use this option to solve the above problem,
and only specify one of the above shells as its argument.
(If you encounter this problem with your platform's native
Bourne shell, please send a short report to mutt-dev@cs.hmc.edu,
so a short note on this topic can be added to the Platform notes
section below.)
--enable-exact-address
By default, Mutt will rewrite all addresses in the form
Personal Name <user@host.domain>
regardless of the input. By enabling this option, Mutt will write
addresses in the same form they are parsed. NOTE: this requires
significantly more memory.
Once ``configure'' has completed, simply type ``make install.''
Mutt should compile cleanly (without errors) and you should end up with a
binary called ``mutt.'' If you get errors about undefined symbols like
A_NORMAL or KEY_MIN, then you probably don't have a SysV compliant curses
library. You should install either ncurses or S-Lang (see above), and then
run the ``configure'' script again.
Platform Notes
==============
All platforms
There is a bug in most (if not all) S-Lang versions which
prevents the Meta key from working with mutt. A patch can be
found in the file patch.slang-1.2.2.keypad.1 in this mutt
distribution.
Solaris 2.4
The system regcomp() and regexec() routines are very badly broken.
So much so that using them will cause Mutt to be totally unusable.
The --with-rx option to `configure' should always be used. (Note:
the problems have apparently been fixed in Solaris 2.5)
Color does not work right with Solaris curses. You will have to
compile with either ncurses or slang to get working color support.
Linux
On recent Linux systems, flock() and fcntl() locks don't mix. If
you use the --enable-flock switch on such systems, be sure to
give the --disable-fcntl argument as well.
The Linux libc 5.4.45 disables locale support in programs running
setgid mail. You'll need to use the configure switch
"--enable-locales-fix". If you're using a non-iso-8859 font, you
lose. This is not an issue on glibc (libc 6) based systems.
Sparc Linux
Redhat 4.2 Sparc users reported problems with some system
include files when building mutt. Configuring mutt with the
--disable-warnings switch is said to help against this problem.
Digital Unix (OSF/1)
Don't try "--with-rx", because you won't be able to match
anything (using system's regex functions seems to work fine
though).
Also, the system curses library is said to be badly broken. Use
GNU ncurses or SLang instead.
FreeBSD 3.0
/bin/sh is broken on this platform. You need the
"--with-exec-shell" configuration switch here; ksh
and bash are reported to be fine.
This may also be an issue with earlier FreeBSD
versions.
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