Re: [PATCH] config.mak.uname: use iconv from Homebrew on macOS

"brian m. carlson" [off-list ref] writes:

On 2025-12-09 at 19:35:34, René Scharfe wrote:

quoted

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.

I like this solution, since it means when Apple ships their own Git
(which doesn't use Homebrew), they will be incentivized to fix the
problem since the test fails.

Well, their build without Homebrew would fail with or without this
patch, no?  It is a good thing either way ;-)

Will queue.  Thanks.