From: "René Scharfe" <l.s.r@web.de>
To: Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: "Torsten Bögershausen" <tboegi@web.de>,
"Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón" <carenas@gmail.com>,
"brian m . carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>,
"Koji Nakamaru" <koji.nakamaru@gree.net>,
"Yee Cheng Chin" <ychin.macvim@gmail.com>,
"Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: [PATCH v4 2/2] macOS: use iconv from Homebrew if needed and present
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2025 09:03:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <33d65e54-4f02-4167-bc4e-ec0ee36fc786@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ce030c90-f635-42b5-82e1-814cd4c29505@web.de>
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. Search it in
its default locations: /opt/homebrew for Apple Silicon and /usr/local
for macOS Intel, with the former taking precedence. Respect ICONVDIR if
already set by the user, though.
Helped-by: Koji Nakamaru <koji.nakamaru@gree.net>
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
---
Makefile | 12 ++++++++++--
config.mak.uname | 4 ++++
2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 9aef22c032..b7eba509c6 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -101,12 +101,15 @@ include shared.mak
# specify your own (or DarwinPort's) include directories and
# library directories by defining CFLAGS and LDFLAGS appropriately.
#
-# Define NO_HOMEBREW if you don't want to use gettext and msgfmt
-# installed by Homebrew.
+# Define NO_HOMEBREW if you don't want to use gettext, libiconv and
+# msgfmt installed by Homebrew.
#
# Define HOMEBREW_PREFIX if you have Homebrew installed in a non-default
# location on macOS or on Linux and want to use it.
#
+# Define USE_HOMEBREW_LIBICONV to link against libiconv installed by
+# Homebrew, if present.
+#
# Define NO_APPLE_COMMON_CRYPTO if you are building on Darwin/Mac OS X
# and do not want to use Apple's CommonCrypto library. This allows you
# to provide your own OpenSSL library, for example from MacPorts.
@@ -1708,6 +1711,11 @@ endif
ifeq ($(shell test -x $(HOMEBREW_PREFIX)/opt/gettext/msgfmt && echo y),y)
MSGFMT = $(HOMEBREW_PREFIX)/opt/gettext/msgfmt
endif
+ifdef USE_HOMEBREW_LIBICONV
+ifeq ($(shell test -d $(HOMEBREW_PREFIX)/opt/libiconv && echo y),y)
+ ICONVDIR ?= $(HOMEBREW_PREFIX)/opt/libiconv
+endif
+endif
endif
endif
diff --git a/config.mak.uname b/config.mak.uname
index db2a922751..38b35af366 100644
--- a/config.mak.uname
+++ b/config.mak.uname
@@ -124,6 +124,7 @@ ifeq ($(uname_S),Darwin)
# - MacOS 10.0.* and MacOS 10.1.0 = Darwin 1.*
# - MacOS 10.x.* = Darwin (x+4).* for (1 <= x)
# i.e. "begins with [15678] and a dot" means "10.4.* or older".
+ DARWIN_MAJOR_VERSION = $(shell expr "$(uname_R)" : '\([0-9]*\)\.')
ifeq ($(shell expr "$(uname_R)" : '[15678]\.'),2)
OLD_ICONV = UnfortunatelyYes
NO_APPLE_COMMON_CRYPTO = YesPlease
@@ -154,6 +155,9 @@ ifeq ($(uname_S),Darwin)
else
HOMEBREW_PREFIX = /usr/local
endif
+ ifeq ($(shell test "$(DARWIN_MAJOR_VERSION)" -ge 24 && echo 1),1)
+ USE_HOMEBREW_LIBICONV = UnfortunatelyYes
+ endif
# The builtin FSMonitor on MacOS builds upon Simple-IPC. Both require
# Unix domain sockets and PThreads.
--
2.52.0
prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-12-24 8:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-12-08 22:59 t3900 failure on macOS, iconv(3) broken? René Scharfe
2025-12-09 3:18 ` Koji Nakamaru
2025-12-09 3:50 ` Yee Cheng Chin
2025-12-09 4:03 ` Collin Funk
2025-12-09 16:33 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2025-12-09 19:35 ` René Scharfe
2025-12-09 21:24 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2025-12-09 22:25 ` René Scharfe
2025-12-09 19:35 ` [PATCH] config.mak.uname: use iconv from Homebrew on macOS René Scharfe
2025-12-09 20:39 ` Yee Cheng Chin
2025-12-09 21:27 ` René Scharfe
2025-12-10 11:17 ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2025-12-10 17:56 ` René Scharfe
2025-12-11 2:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-12-11 11:17 ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2025-12-12 2:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-12-12 9:16 ` René Scharfe
2025-12-12 10:02 ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2025-12-12 13:04 ` Re* " Junio C Hamano
2025-12-12 13:48 ` René Scharfe
2025-12-12 23:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-12-10 16:42 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2025-12-10 17:56 ` René Scharfe
2025-12-10 23:10 ` brian m. carlson
2025-12-11 2:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-12-11 9:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-12-11 14:34 ` René Scharfe
2025-12-12 3:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-12-12 10:40 ` t3900 failure on macOS, iconv(3) broken? René Scharfe
2025-12-13 18:42 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] Makefile: add NO_HOMEBREW René Scharfe
2025-12-14 6:45 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2025-12-14 7:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-12-14 9:02 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2025-12-14 11:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-12-14 11:13 ` René Scharfe
2025-12-14 23:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-12-16 18:53 ` René Scharfe
2025-12-13 18:42 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] config.mak.uname: use iconv from Homebrew on macOS René Scharfe
2025-12-16 18:53 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] macOS: make Homebrew use configurable René Scharfe
2025-12-16 19:11 ` René Scharfe
2025-12-16 21:49 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2025-12-16 18:53 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] macOS: use iconv from Homebrew if present René Scharfe
2025-12-24 7:52 ` [PATCH v4 0/2] macOS: use iconv from Homebrew if needed and present René Scharfe
2025-12-24 8:02 ` [PATCH v4 1/2] macOS: make Homebrew use configurable René Scharfe
2025-12-24 8:03 ` René Scharfe [this message]
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