How do I tell if a particular formula will be installed as binary of from source?
Is there a brew command for this?
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How do I tell if a particular formula will be installed as binary of from source?
Is there a brew command for this?
As bmike's answer points out, aside from digging through the projects source to determine what executables they install, there's no good way to determine what commands come with a given formula before installing it.
After a formula is installed, running
brew unlink --dry-run formula | grep "$(brew --prefix)/bin"
is a workable option now that --dry-run
is available for brew unlink
.
Before that was added I wrote an external command called brew executables
that still has some benefits over the above (mainly in formatting and handling some links a bit differently). I'll include a simplified (and probably non-working, due to missing some variable assignments) version of it here:
version_in_use=$(echo "$brew_info" | grep "$HOMEBREW_PREFIX.*\*$" | sed -e "s|.*$formula/\([^ ]*\).*|\1|i")
cd "$HOMEBREW_CELLAR/$formula/$version_in_use"
for dir in `find . -type d -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -name "bin"`; do
for file in `find "$dir" -type f -o -type l -perm +111`
do
filename=$(basename $file)
echo $filename
done
done
In short, it pulls the list of executables out of $(brew --prefix)/$formula/$version_in_use/bin
. The version on my GitHub is a bit more fleshed out, including some added ability to identify/indicate when there are commands that link to each other in this bin directory.
Homebrew cleanup
does not have a -k
flag, nor is there any way to get Homebrew use the cleanup
command to skip specific formulas.
There was a feature request in the Github Homebrew project, but it was rejected.
The advice then was to create your own tap. Since you are simply creating another version, use brew edit [formula]
to modify the existing formula.
See for example the homebrew/php/php54
homebrew/php/php55
and homebrew/php/php56
formulas.
Homebrew itself supports multiple versions of some formulas, especially for widely used programming languages. For example, there are multiple @
versions of Ruby
$ brew search /^ruby*/
rubberband ✔ ruby-completion ruby@1.9 ✔ ruby@2.2
ruby ✔ ruby-install ruby@2.0 ruby@2.3
ruby-build ✔ ruby@1.8 ruby@2.1
homebrew/portable/portable-ruby homebrew/portable/portable-ruby@2.2
Here is the ruby@1.9
formula
class RubyAT19 < Formula
desc "Powerful, clean, object-oriented scripting language"
homepage "https://www.ruby-lang.org/"
url "https://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.9/ruby-1.9.3-p551.tar.bz2"
sha256 "b0c5e37e3431d58613a160504b39542ec687d473de1d4da983dabcf3c5de771e"
revision 4
bottle do
sha256 "3db7c4d297998e6f53b10e35626bdf94f8db0836778ce8ef943846e1d5b35fbc" => :sierra
sha256 "9c5dd40c620a597405e3c2d458bc9772ad1c661acf501b65f9e9d8871c300f7f" => :el_capitan
sha256 "9334e46da0b55e3ea20bba27c49352b8b9f95674a5dea1691b5fd04625f23eed" => :yosemite
end
keg_only :versioned_formula
option "with-suffix", "Suffix commands with '193'"
option "with-doc", "Install documentation"
option "with-tcltk", "Install with Tcl/Tk support"
depends_on "pkg-config" => :build
depends_on "readline" => :recommended
depends_on "gdbm" => :optional
depends_on "libyaml"
depends_on "openssl"
depends_on :x11 if build.with? "tcltk"
def install
args = %W[
--prefix=#{prefix}
--enable-shared
--with-sitedir=#{HOMEBREW_PREFIX}/lib/ruby/site_ruby
--with-vendordir=#{HOMEBREW_PREFIX}/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby
]
args << "--program-suffix=#{program_suffix}" if build.with? "suffix"
args << "--with-out-ext=tk" if build.without? "tcltk"
args << "--disable-install-doc" if build.without? "doc"
paths = [
Formula["libyaml"].opt_prefix,
Formula["openssl"].opt_prefix,
]
%w[readline gdbm].each do |dep|
paths << Formula[dep].opt_prefix if build.with? dep
end
args << "--with-opt-dir=#{paths.join(":")}"
system "./configure", *args
# Ruby has been configured to look in the HOMEBREW_PREFIX for the
# sitedir and vendordir directories; however we don't actually want to create
# them during the install.
#
# These directories are empty on install; sitedir is used for non-rubygems
# third party libraries, and vendordir is used for packager-provided libraries.
inreplace "tool/rbinstall.rb" do |s|
s.gsub! 'prepare "extension scripts", sitelibdir', ""
s.gsub! 'prepare "extension scripts", vendorlibdir', ""
s.gsub! 'prepare "extension objects", sitearchlibdir', ""
s.gsub! 'prepare "extension objects", vendorarchlibdir', ""
end
system "make"
system "make", "install"
end
def post_install
# Customize rubygems to look/install in the global gem directory
# instead of in the Cellar, making gems last across reinstalls
config_file = lib/"ruby/#{abi_version}/rubygems/defaults/operating_system.rb"
config_file.unlink if config_file.exist?
config_file.write rubygems_config
# Create the sitedir and vendordir that were skipped during install
ruby="#{bin}/ruby#{program_suffix}"
%w[sitearchdir vendorarchdir].each do |dir|
mkdir_p `#{ruby} -rrbconfig -e 'print RbConfig::CONFIG["#{dir}"]'`
end
# Create the version-specific bindir used by rubygems
mkdir_p rubygems_bindir
end
def abi_version
"1.9.1"
end
def program_suffix
build.with?("suffix") ? "193" : ""
end
def rubygems_bindir
"#{HOMEBREW_PREFIX}/lib/ruby/gems/#{abi_version}/bin"
end
def rubygems_config; <<-EOS.undent
module Gem
class << self
alias :old_default_dir :default_dir
alias :old_default_path :default_path
alias :old_default_bindir :default_bindir
alias :old_ruby :ruby
end
def self.default_dir
path = [
"#{HOMEBREW_PREFIX}",
"lib",
"ruby",
"gems",
"#{abi_version}"
]
@default_dir ||= File.join(*path)
end
def self.private_dir
path = if defined? RUBY_FRAMEWORK_VERSION then
[
File.dirname(RbConfig::CONFIG['sitedir']),
'Gems',
RbConfig::CONFIG['ruby_version']
]
elsif RbConfig::CONFIG['rubylibprefix'] then
[
RbConfig::CONFIG['rubylibprefix'],
'gems',
RbConfig::CONFIG['ruby_version']
]
else
[
RbConfig::CONFIG['libdir'],
ruby_engine,
'gems',
RbConfig::CONFIG['ruby_version']
]
end
@private_dir ||= File.join(*path)
end
def self.default_path
if Gem.user_home && File.exist?(Gem.user_home)
[user_dir, default_dir, private_dir]
else
[default_dir, private_dir]
end
end
def self.default_bindir
"#{rubygems_bindir}"
end
def self.ruby
"#{opt_bin}/ruby#{program_suffix}"
end
end
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Best Answer
You could use
brew edit ${formula_name}
. That will open an editor with the formula contents. If there is a reference to a "bottle", then installing it with default settings will use that. However, if you add an option, then homebrew will compile the software for you.