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man-db: fix test failure when using Darwin’s libiconv

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man-db makes assumptions about libiconv that are not true for all
libiconv implementations, which causes the test to go into an infinite
loop because it never makes the progress it expects to make.
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Randy Eckenrode 2024-09-30 09:00:26 -04:00
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@ -47,6 +47,11 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
# Add mandb locations for the above
echo "MANDB_MAP /nix/var/nix/profiles/default/share/man /var/cache/man/nixpkgs" >> src/man_db.conf.in
'' + lib.optionalString stdenv.hostPlatform.isDarwin ''
# This test fails on Darwin. man-db expects libiconv to skip over the invalid character in the source data, but
# Darwin’s libiconv returns EILSEQ without skipping it. This causes the `manconv` to go into an infinite loop
# because it keeps trying to convert the invalid character.
sed -i '/manconv-odd-combinations/d' src/tests/Makefile.am
'';
configureFlags = [