Re: Building rather than downloading CMake in macosx-setup.sh (was Re: [Wireshark-commits] rev 40498: /trunk/ /trunk/: macosx-setup.sh)

[Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>]

On Jul 26, 2014, at 11:39 AM, Evan Huus <eapache () gmail com> wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 2:11 PM, Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu> 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.
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