On Jul 26, 2014, at 11:39 AM, Evan Huus <eapache@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 2:11 PM, Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> So is there a reason to build CMake from source rather than downloading one of the binaries for OS X?
>
> I don't think so. About a month ago I played around with building on OS X using homebrew packages
Note that, by "one of the binaries for OS X", I'm referring to the binaries under
http://www.cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html
rather than to third-party packages.
> In fact, I believe my current macbook still builds Wireshark entirely from homebrew (with some extra manual symlinks added to work around [1]). I have no idea how autotools would behave with a similar setup, but if it is also happy it might be worth simplifying macosx-setup.sh to:
> - install the appropriate brew packages
> - add symlinks to work around [1]
Does that assume you've installed Homebrew?
If so, please don't make it a requirement; I've managed to avoid installing various package managers for OS X so far, and would prefer to continue to do so - I prefer to avoid third-party changes, and would also not want to require other developers on OS X to install a third-party package manager or to install one different from the one they've chosen.
