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From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
To: Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Cc: "Git List" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	"SZEDER Gábor" <szeder.dev@gmail.com>,
	"Johannes Schindelin" <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] macos: do let the build find the gettext headers/libraries/msgfmt
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 16:49:30 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPig+cSkr+2dExzETScru0N5_=JhjVR=QZKuY5CbhstwrUUk5w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPig+cSDQe7YDke=fyfdeSZOimcR5jj3FFk=Q4iOk6uiHsT-Zw@mail.gmail.com>

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.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-23 20:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-23  7:52 [PATCH] macos: do let the build find the gettext headers/libraries/msgfmt Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-04-23 16:17 ` Eric Sunshine
2020-04-23 20:49   ` Eric Sunshine [this message]
2020-04-25 12:54     ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-04-26 15:54       ` Carlo Arenas
2020-04-26 16:59         ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-04-25  6:15 ` [PATCH] macos: do not assume brew and gettext are always available/wanted Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2020-04-25 12:33   ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-04-25 12:54 ` [PATCH v2] macos: do let the build find the gettext headers/libraries/msgfmt Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-04-26 17:05   ` Torsten Bögershausen
2020-04-26 17:34   ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2020-04-26 20:09   ` [PATCH v3 1/1] MacOs/brew: Let the build find " tboegi

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