From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 20:49:30 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] macos: do let the build find the gettext headers/libraries/msgfmt
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On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 12:17 PM Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> wrote:
> I'm slightly leery of seeing these applied globally on Mac OS in
> config.mak.uname since various package managers on Mac OS install
> packages in wildly different locations, and these settings might cause
> the wrong version of a package to be picked up if a user has a
> preferred version installed elsewhere.

As a follow up, although slightly leery of applying this change
globally to config.mak.uname, I don't necessarily oppose it either.
Considering how widely adopted Homebrew is on Mac OS, baking in a bit
of Homebrew-specific knowledge would make it easier for a Git
developer to get up and running by eliminating some of the manual
fiddling and configuration currently necessary.