| I've had two issues with homebrew that always bothered me: 1. It doesn't work well with multiple users
2. It doesn't build apps using DESTDIR correctly. Number 2 has been a bigger issue for me. Homebrew configures autotools applications using the full prefix of /usr/local/Cellar/app/version. It then gets installed to that prefix and is symlinked to /usr/local. The problem here, is apps built like this look for their data in their prefix path (/usr/local/Cellar/app/version/usr/share/data/) rather than /usr/local/data. This ends up breaking things. For example, I was working on porting a gtk app to mac os, and needed to build gobject bindings. Normally, glib would be built with a prefix of /usr/local, so it'd look for all gobject bindings in /usr/local/share/gir-1.0/. But since glib is being build with a prefix of /usr/local/Cellar/glib/2.40.0, it is expecting all gobject bindings in /usr/local/Cellar/glib/2.40.0/usr/share/gir-1.0/. But, when I build libchamplain, it installs its gobject file in /usr/local/Cellar/libchamplain/1.0.1/usr/share/gir-1.0/. Now, everything gets symlinked to /usr/local/share/gir-1.0/, so it looks like it would work, right? Except, gobject was built with the full prefix, so it _only_ looks in /usr/local/Cellar/glib/2.40.0/usr/share/gir-1.0/ for gobject files. This means it doesn't find libchamplain or any other libraries. The correct way to do this, is to run configure with the destination prefix (/usr/local/), then do an install using DESTIDR: make install DESTDIR=/usr/local/Cellar/glib/2.40.0/. Then you can symlink to /usr/local/. |