From 074ef4d75f9439036119c9874e42f8a92c9bc4fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Neil Johnson <neil@matrix.org>
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2024 17:10:44 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add an OSX prompt to manually configure icu4c. (#17069)

Documentation fix.
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 changelog.d/17069.doc                  | 1 +
 docs/development/contributing_guide.md | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 changelog.d/17069.doc

diff --git a/changelog.d/17069.doc b/changelog.d/17069.doc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f5a7f599d1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog.d/17069.doc
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Add a prompt in the contributing guide to manually configure icu4c.
diff --git a/docs/development/contributing_guide.md b/docs/development/contributing_guide.md
index ac8a7039d1..76c3e790cd 100644
--- a/docs/development/contributing_guide.md
+++ b/docs/development/contributing_guide.md
@@ -86,6 +86,8 @@ poetry install --extras all
 This will install the runtime and developer dependencies for the project.  Be sure to check
 that the `poetry install` step completed cleanly.
 
+For OSX users, be sure to set `PKG_CONFIG_PATH` to support `icu4c`. Run `brew info icu4c` for more details.
+
 ## Running Synapse via poetry
 
 To start a local instance of Synapse in the locked poetry environment, create a config file:
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