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commit 85fd30ba7efc9413e0b38fe137e7d2f65a214f62
Author: Jan Lehnardt <j...@apache.org>
AuthorDate: Thu Oct 2 16:55:03 2025 +0200
doc: update install instructions
---
INSTALL.Unix.md | 10 ++++++++--
README-DEV.rst | 6 +++---
2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/INSTALL.Unix.md b/INSTALL.Unix.md
index a07889798..3c77422ee 100644
--- a/INSTALL.Unix.md
+++ b/INSTALL.Unix.md
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ You can install the dependencies by running:
You can install Node.JS via
[NodeSource](https://github.com/nodesource/distributions#rpminstall).
-### Mac OS X
+### macOS
To build CouchDB from source on Mac OS X, you will need to install
the Command Line Tools:
@@ -96,6 +96,12 @@ You can then install the other dependencies by running:
brew install autoconf autoconf-archive automake libtool \
erlang icu4c spidermonkey pkg-config
+Note that newer versions of Homebrew install `icu4c` as “keg-only”.
+That means the CouchDB build system can’t find it. Either follow
+the instructions presented by Homebrew or run
+
+ brew link icu4c
+
You can install Node.JS via the
[official Macintosh installer](https://nodejs.org/en/download/).
@@ -103,7 +109,7 @@ You will need Homebrew installed to use the `brew` command.
Learn more about Homebrew at:
- http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/
+ https://brew.sh
Some versions of Mac OS X ship a problematic OpenSSL library. If
you're experiencing troubles with CouchDB crashing intermittently with
diff --git a/README-DEV.rst b/README-DEV.rst
index 12ad36473..d6dcc4a55 100644
--- a/README-DEV.rst
+++ b/README-DEV.rst
@@ -111,8 +111,8 @@ Centos 7 and RHEL 7
python-pygments gnupg nodejs npm
-Mac OS X
-~~~~~~~~
+macOS
+~~~~~
Install `Homebrew <https://brew.sh/>`_, if you do not have it already.
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ Unless you want to install the optional dependencies, skip
to the next section.
Install what else we can with Homebrew::
- brew install help2man gnupg md5sha1sum node python
+ brew install help2man gnupg md5sha1sum node python elixir
If you don't already have pip installed, install it::
