Re: [PATCH] config.mak.uname: use iconv from Homebrew on macOS

From: Yee Cheng Chin <ychin.macvim@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 9, 2025, 20:39 UTC
Message-ID: <CAHTeOx-LFJVtNXrY-RfVUcAA_SjvK2310_xQ3skUEgKKQ6w57Q@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <16efc726-34be-44f5-aa92-4e82b663ab3d@web.de>

> +       ifeq ($(shell test -d /usr/local/opt/libiconv/ && echo y),y)
> +               ICONVDIR ?= /usr/local/opt/libiconv
> +       endif

One thing to keep in mind is that x86-64 Homebrew (which is the one that uses the /usr/local/ location) can be installed via Rosetta 2 on Apple Silicon Macs for testing (I use it myself). In that case you wouldn't really want to use the /usr/local/opt/libiconv location. It would be a somewhat niche case (the user has to be using Apple Silicon Mac, and somehow has Rosetta Homebrew libiconv installed but not native Homebrew libiconv), but could happen.

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