On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 12:54:26PM +0000, Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget wrote: > diff --git a/config.mak.uname b/config.mak.uname > index 0ab8e009383..1ea16e89288 100644 > --- a/config.mak.uname > +++ b/config.mak.uname > @@ -133,8 +133,17 @@ ifeq ($(uname_S),Darwin) > HAVE_BSD_SYSCTL = YesPlease > FREAD_READS_DIRECTORIES = UnfortunatelyYes > HAVE_NS_GET_EXECUTABLE_PATH = YesPlease > - BASIC_CFLAGS += -I/usr/local/include > - BASIC_LDFLAGS += -L/usr/local/lib keeping these flags independenly allows people that doesn't have brew or that have brew but hadn't installed the gettext package, to still be able to use other libraries/packages that could be installed in those directories either through brew (ex: libgcrypt, openssl or pcre*) or manually while also using a compiler that doesn't use by default /usr/local/{include,lib}. even if all this might sound like a stretch, notice that it happened before as shown by 2a1377a2a (macOS: make sure that gettext is found, 2019-04-14) > + # Workaround for `gettext` being keg-only and not even being linked via > + # `brew link --force gettext`, should be obsolete as of > + # https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/53489 > + ifeq ($(shell test -d /usr/local/opt/gettext/ && echo y),y) > + BASIC_CFLAGS += -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include > + BASIC_LDFLAGS += -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/opt/gettext/lib > + ifeq ($(shell test -x /usr/local/opt/gettext/bin/msgfmt && echo y),y) > + MSGFMT = /usr/local/opt/gettext/bin/msgfmt > + endif > + endif > endif > ifeq ($(uname_S),SunOS) > NEEDS_SOCKET = YesPlease > since this doesn't depend on NO_GETTEXT and the gettext support doesn't get automatically configured and used if found (unlike most other) then having it here could work and is cleaner, but will still mean that MSGFMT will be called to compile the translation files even when git is built with NO_GETTEXT just because of that oddity I think having it with the other package related entries in Makefile might still make sense (specially since we can't get rid of it unless we also deprecate the other package managers), but if cleaning it is what you had in mind would also appreciate in that line your review on 20200425102651.51961-1-carenas@xxxxxxxxx[1] and 20200425091549.42293-1-carenas@xxxxxxxxx[2] that do similar work and that in the later case improve performance and correctness of git grep. Carlo [1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/20200425102651.51961-1-carenas@xxxxxxxxx/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/git/20200425091549.42293-1-carenas@xxxxxxxxx/