Hi Eric, On Thu, 23 Apr 2020, Eric Sunshine wrote: > On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 12:17 PM Eric Sunshine <sunshine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. I share your concern. But in contrast to Fink and DarwinPorts, we have no Homebrew-specific knob in the Makefile (does this mean that we expect users to use Homebrew by default?). With the update that I just sent out, which guards the added flags behind a check for that directory's existence, would you agree that the current state is "good enough"? Thanks, Dscho
