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

From: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Date: Dec 10, 2025, 23:10 UTC
Message-ID: <aTn92yqtSDyVoLgh@fruit.crustytoothpaste.net>
In-Reply-To: <16efc726-34be-44f5-aa92-4e82b663ab3d@web.de>

On 2025-12-09 at 19:35:34, René Scharfe wrote:

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> The library function iconv(3) supplied with macOS versions 15.7.2
> (Sequoia) and 26.1 (Tahoe) is unreliable when doing conversions from
> ISO-2022-JP to UTF-8 in multiple steps; t3900 reports this breakage:
> 
>   not ok 17 - ISO-2022-JP should be shown in UTF-8 now
>   not ok 25 - ISO-2022-JP should be shown in UTF-8 now
>   not ok 38 - commit --fixup into ISO-2022-JP from UTF-8
> 
> As a workaround, use libiconv from Homebrew, if available.

I like this solution, since it means when Apple ships their own Git (which doesn't use Homebrew), they will be incentivized to fix the problem since the test fails.

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brian m. carlson (they/them)
Toronto, Ontario, CA