Build failure with current master on MacOS

[Stephan Bergmann]

On 08/02/2017 03:12 PM, Christian Lohmaier wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 1:18 PM, Tor Lillqvist <tml at iki.fi> wrote:
>> But we have traditionally strongly advised against polluting one's build
>> environment on macOS with Homebrew and similar. Has this changed?
> 
> No, has not changed.
> Homebrew, Fink, darwinports of whatever they are called  pollute the
> environment, can cause broken builds.
> If you use homebrew or other systems like that you're on your own.

What I use is a from-source installation of MacPorts, configured with 
--prefix=... and --with-no-root-privileges so that it doesn't pollute 
the system, and then explicitly pointing LO to whatever is needed from 
that MacPorts installation, e.g. by setting MSGFMT=... and MSGUNIQ=... 
in autogen.input.