Compiling mutt on OSX

Mon 29 April 2013 by Matthew Brett

I first half-read some pages:

My setup

I compile everything into /Users/mb312/usr/local

I have the LIBRARY_PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variables set to include /Users/mb312/usr/local/lib/ and CPATH set to include /Users/mb312/usr/local/include/

/Users/mb312/usr/local/bin is on my PATH.

I tend to install release tarballs from a directory /Users/mb312/stable_trees and I put development code into /Users/mb312/dev_trees.

Install

gdbm library for header cache databasing

For IMAP use, it's good to be able to cache headers locally (see mutt header_cache variable configuration). You have a choice of various databases, including Berkeley DB4 and Toyko Cabinet. I chose gdbm.

cd ~/stable_trees/
curl -O ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gdbm/gdbm-1.10.tar.gz
tar zxvf gdbm-1.10.tar.gz
cd gdbm-1.10
./configure --prefix=/Users/mb312/usr/local
make
make install

SASL library for SMTP authentication

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Authentication_and_Security_Layer http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/mediawiki/index.php/Downloads

cd ~/stable_trees
curl -O ftp://ftp.cyrusimap.org/cyrus-sasl/cyrus-sasl-2.1.26.tar.gz
tar zxvf cyrus-sasl-2.1.26.tar.gz
cd cyrus-sasl-2.1.26/
./configure --prefix=/Users/mb312/usr/local
make install
# This will need to go into my bash_profile
export SASL_PATH=/Users/mb312/usr/local/lib/sasl2

Mutt

I installed the development version of mutt - see: mutt development

cd ~/dev_trees
hg clone http://dev.mutt.org/hg/mutt#HEAD
cd mutt
./prepare --prefix=/Users/mb312/usr/local --with-curses  --with-regex \
    --enable-locales-fix --enable-pop --enable-imap --enable-smtp \
    --with-sasl --enable-hcache --with-ssl
make

When doing make install I got this error:

chgrp: you are not a member of group mail
Can't fix mutt_dotlock's permissions!  This is required to lock mailboxes in the mail spool directory.

So I added myself to the mail group using this user to group command line:

sudo dseditgroup -o edit -a mb312 -t user mail

and:

make install