Update of bug #66143 (group groff):
Status: Need Info => Rejected
Assigned to: None => gbranden
Summary: build doesn't find Homebrew uchardet on MacOS 14.6.1
=> build doesn't find Homebrew uchardet on macOS 14.6.1
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Follow-up Comment #26:
I'm resolving this as "Rejected" because apparently this comes down to a
difference of opinion between me and the Homebrew developers, or the
_uchardet_, uh, "bottlers" over where that library's header file should be
found.
My opinion is that it should be sought here:
/usr/include/uchardet/uchardet.h
That's where Debian keeps it, and therefore probably Ubuntu and between them a
whole boatload of derivative distributions.
It is also the reasonable place to keep header files for a library with a
version number of "0.0.7" (I explain why in comment #22). That release was
more recent than I expected; the Debian packager prepared it in May 2020.
The _uchardet_ developers may in fact feel differently, and I'm interested to
know if they've gone on the record thus. I'd also add that a good way to
document such a decision, along with the rest of the API, is to *write a man
page for the library*. That _uchardet_(3) doesn't exist is a *bug*.
I believe Sven has a workaround documented in this ticket's history; I'd
appreciate it if he'd follow up pointing to or summarizing it. I don't want
macOS users of _groff_ to suffer, and I am not pleased that they are adversely
affected by the foregoing difference of opinion. In case it need be said, if
I didn't think my view was on solid ground, I'd change it.
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