Hi, I just had some fun with 1.5.18 to get it to work. I'm using berkely db, and upon start of mutt I got a segfault. After removing my cache dirs I got a message that a given function was not supported at the current stage. That triggered me to look at what was actually linked.
Now I don't have a good solution here, but I can say that the berkely db check is not really working well. What happened is that my Berkely DB 4.5 installation headers from /my/place/usr were used to compile, while was linked using -ldb4.6 from /usr/lib/. This results in a nice mismatch -- not working. Anyway, I noticed mutt adds some default paths to the BDB search path if no path is given to --with-bdb argument, so I added my prefix where bdb 4.5 is installed, but that doesn't work either, because if some headers are found, it is tried to compile a small example using all libs from known versions in a loop, disregarding the version of the headers found. Aparently the example compiles fine with the mismatch. It doesn't guarantee that it works at runtime of course. Now this is probably a bit weird setup, and I know the berkely db check has had some incarnations trying to fix all possible combinations and problems... but nevertheless. In case someone experiences the same, this is what I did: http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/alt/browser/trunk/prefix-overlay/mail-client/mutt/files/mutt-1.5.18-bdb-prefix.patch The simple idea here is that "db" is the generic thing that points to the installation used "default" (at least on Gentoo), which means -ldb is used, resulting in no mismatch for me since /my/place/usr/lib is in my library search path. However, I don't think this works for everyone. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level
