Re: Git 2.26.2 and failed self tests on OS X
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- Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com>
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- May 6, 2020, 20:36 UTC
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On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 8:26 AM Philippe Blain <philippe.blain@me.com> wrote:
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> ... > > I am not an iconv expert - and don't intend to become one. > > The UTF-8-MAC conversion does probably only exist in the > > code for iconv shipped on Mac OS - so it could happen that this > > code is not open source. > > Yes, this encoding only exists in the Apple fork of iconv, > which is open-source (probably because of the original > license); tarballs can be found at [2]. However in typical Apple fashion > the versioning of their iconv fork is kind of undecipherable and hard to relate to the > upstream iconv versioning. > > Also, I searched the iconv mailing list [3] when I came across this error and the consensus > seemed to be that they do not intend to add this encoding upstream. > > Cheers, > > Philippe. > > [1] https://github.com/conda-forge/git-feedstock/issues/50 > [2] https://opensource.apple.com/tarballs/libiconv/ > [3] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/cgi-bin/namazu.cgi?query=utf-8-mac&submit=Search%21&idxname=bug-gnu-libiconv&max=20&result=normal&sort=score
Thanks Phillipe.
I found two sources for libiconv with UTF-8-Mac. First is a GitHub at https://github.com/fumiyas/libiconv-utf8mac. The second is the opensource.apple.com link you provided at [2].
The GitHub claims to be layered on top of libiconv 1.16, but I was not able to get a working tarball from it. It looks like Apple's libiconv-59.tar.gz is the answer to this problem.
Thanks again for the help.
Jeff