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Re: [groff] UTF8 characters to pdf


From: John Gardner
Subject: Re: [groff] UTF8 characters to pdf
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2019 19:59:00 +1100

*> Would anyone who uses a Mac and is reasonably Homebrew-literate like to
pick this up?*

Done! See https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/36469 (I CC'd you
on GitHub anyway)

On Mon, 28 Jan 2019 at 15:57, John Gardner <address@hidden> wrote:

> *> Would anyone who uses a Mac and is reasonably Homebrew-literate like to
> pick this up?*
>
> My contributions to Homebrew are minimal at best, but I'll see what I can
> do. Having a man-db formula will quicken development/testing of Roff.js
> <https://github.com/Alhadis/Roff.js>, because switching between man(1)
> flavours will be as easy as running `brew (un)link man-db`. =)
>
> FYI, there's also a Linux port <http://linuxbrew.sh/> of Homebrew, though
> I've never tried it.
>
> On Mon, 28 Jan 2019 at 09:26, Colin Watson <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 04:21:51PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
>> > On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 02:10:32AM +1100, John Gardner wrote:
>> > > There was an attempt to get man-db
>> > > <https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/25376> accepted in
>> > > Homebrew, but a patch was needed for macOS support, which Homebrew
>> required
>> > > upstream to accept before they'd support it.
>> >
>> > FWIW, this was gnulib upstream, not man-db / libpipeline upstream (i.e.
>> > me).
>> >
>> > If somebody could point me to where I could get SSH access to a macOS
>> > box with the right set of build tools installed, I'd be happy to try to
>> > get it working properly.
>>
>> We got this sorted out so that libpipeline and man-db build without
>> patches in Homebrew:
>>
>>   https://github.com/ylluminarious/homebrew-man-db/issues/1
>>
>> However, the original submitter is reluctant to submit these formulae to
>> the Homebrew maintainers again due to their earlier conflict (see the
>> end of that issue).  I'm not a good person to do it since I don't use a
>> Mac.  Would anyone who uses a Mac and is reasonably Homebrew-literate
>> like to pick this up?  I don't think the conflict should recur since the
>> upstream build is clean now, and I'd be happy to do whatever other
>> upstream support is needed.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> --
>> Colin Watson                                       address@hidden
>>
>>


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