Re: Build failure with current master on MacOS

> On Jul 25, 2017, at 12:18 PM, Tor Lillqvist <tml@iki.fi> wrote:
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> GNU gettext package is available in Homebrew.
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> But we have traditionally strongly advised against polluting one's build environment on macOS 
> with Homebrew and similar. Has this changed?
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> --tml
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Ok. Then in this case we better clean up the Wiki to explicitly declare *all* extra packages that 
are needed for a Minimal Build [1] and how they are supposed to be installed. The order of 
preference as I get it should be:

1. Manual download, configure & make install;
2. Some package management. Currently MacPorts is hinted on the Wiki, why not Homebrew too?

Another question would be, if gettext is a hard dependency, why not fetch it during the autogen.sh 
just like libboost&co. are? Did anyone try to do that and failed for some reason?

Regarding doxygen, that is a requirement only for the UNO libs right? Then in this case we should 
either not make it a hard dependency during the configure stage or make it obvious that it needs to 
be excluded manually via --without-doxygen otherwise autogen.sh will fail. I'm more inclined 
towards the former, if there's no outstanding reason against doing so.

I think it's important we get the default build working from top to bottom without pitfall, I 
already have mentee reports that tripped over this and never advanced, so I'd like to fix this.

[1] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/BuildingOnMac#Minimal_Setup 
<https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/BuildingOnMac#Minimal_Setup>

Regards,
Shinnok