[bug #66143] build doesn't find Homebrew uchardet on macOS 14.6.1

[G. Branden Robinson]

Update of bug #66143 (group groff):

                  Status:               Need Info => Rejected               
             Assigned to:                    None => gbranden               
                 Summary: build doesn't find Homebrew uchardet on MacOS 14.6.1
 => build doesn't find Homebrew uchardet on macOS 14.6.1 

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Follow-up Comment #26:

I'm resolving this as "Rejected" because apparently this comes down to a
difference of opinion between me and the Homebrew developers, or the
_uchardet_, uh, "bottlers" over where that library's header file should be
found.

My opinion is that it should be sought here:


/usr/include/uchardet/uchardet.h


That's where Debian keeps it, and therefore probably Ubuntu and between them a
whole boatload of derivative distributions.

It is also the reasonable place to keep header files for a library with a
version number of "0.0.7" (I explain why in comment #22).  That release was
more recent than I expected; the Debian packager prepared it in May 2020.

The _uchardet_ developers may in fact feel differently, and I'm interested to
know if they've gone on the record thus.  I'd also add that a good way to
document such a decision, along with the rest of the API, is to *write a man
page for the library*.  That _uchardet_(3) doesn't exist is a *bug*.

I believe Sven has a workaround documented in this ticket's history; I'd
appreciate it if he'd follow up pointing to or summarizing it.  I don't want
macOS users of _groff_ to suffer, and I am not pleased that they are adversely
affected by the foregoing difference of opinion.  In case it need be said, if
I didn't think my view was on solid ground, I'd change it.


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