*> 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 <gardnerjo...@gmail.com> 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 <cjwat...@debian.org> 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 [cjwat...@debian.org] >> >>
