Re: [groff] UTF8 characters to pdf

[Colin Watson]

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,

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Colin Watson                                       address@hidden