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./configure
make
sudo make install
seems to work for lots of software. By default it should install in /usr/local/<bin/lib>
but I've done this for lots of OSS software (e.g. postgres and nginx) on Mac with few problems.
Yes, sometimes you have to pursue the odd missing dependency and build that too (e.g. openssl or readline), but I've
always managed to build from source in the end without brew or (what's the other one called?).
Fair enough, but I have never observed another MacOS user in the wild compile from source.
No matter the risk, every engineer I know uses brew.
MacPorts is the other one and it at least uses some crude bulk openssl signing, but the higher barrier to entry means fewer packages so devs don't use it.
download source code ./configure make sudo make install
seems to work for lots of software. By default it should install in /usr/local/<bin/lib> but I've done this for lots of OSS software (e.g. postgres and nginx) on Mac with few problems.
Yes, sometimes you have to pursue the odd missing dependency and build that too (e.g. openssl or readline), but I've always managed to build from source in the end without brew or (what's the other one called?).