Why would you want to remove Brew---unless you enjoy building gfortran and gmp from source ? :-)
I'd rather suggest we make an effort to create and use as many Brew packages (perhaps from our own) Brew (formulae) repo. I've just transferred the repo with few Brew formulae I wrote to sagemath org: https://github.com/sagemath/homebrew-science It's really not hard to create/tweak these formulae, in fact... Cheers Dima On Sun, Jan 26, 2020 at 10:08 PM Andrew <andrew.mat...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks Justin, François and Dima, your comments were helpful. I used to > quaranteen brew from my sage builds but I stopped doing this because others > managed to compile sage along side homebrew, and even recommended which > packages to install, and I was able to do this before macos 10.15. When I ran > into problems with catalina I tried using brew to uninstall all of the > homebrew packages, but I don't think that I checked to see if the directories > in /usr/local were empty, perhaps they weren't. > > In any case, after renaming the brew directories in /usr/local (specifically > the bin, include, lib and opt directories), I can compile sage again! :) > > When I have some time I will remove brew completely and then add everything > back in slowly and try to isolate and better understand the problem. > Andrew > > On Sunday, 26 January 2020 01:03:19 UTC+1, Justin C. Walker wrote: >> >> >> >> > On Jan 25, 2020, at 15:21 , Andrew <andrew...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > On sage-release Justin C Walker has reported successfully compiled sage >> > 9.1.beta1 on a 2019 MBP, 8-core Core i9 running 10.5.2. >> > >> > I am running 10.5.2 on 2016 MBP, 4-core Core i7 and, as previously >> > reported, I whenever I try to compile I get stuck with: >> >> To echo François, it looks like homebrew and Xcode don’t play well together. >> >> In my case, I do have Xcode 3.x installed, but I don’t use Homebrew or >> MacPorts, or any of those package managers. >> >> Does Homebrew really install “/usr/include”? That seems to be asking for >> trouble… >> >> I don’t have anything to add at this point. >> >> Justin >> >> -- >> Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon at Large >> Director >> Institute for the Enhancement of the Director's Income >> ----------- >> Nobody knows the trouble I've been >> ----------- >> >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/677e267f-9e10-47b6-8dfa-1cff734edbec%40googlegroups.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/CAAWYfq1kVJmndro8f9tLunu3QVy3o-0k_Eipe9X%2BXgyq9Frwuw%40mail.gmail.com.