FAQ

How do I contribute to Homebrew?

See the Formula Cookbook.

bad interpreter: /usr/bin/ruby^M: no such file or directory

You cloned with git, and your git configuration is set to use Windows line endings. Don’t do that.

Why are you compiling everything?

We optimise for your Mac. But we try not compile stuff that takes ages but the availability of binary packages dictates that. We don’t host our own binaries to keep costs zero. If you want to donate hosting to the project, please let mxcl know.

How about Gentoo Prefix?

Gentoo Prefix seems pretty cool, but it isn’t optimised specfically for Mac users and it duplicates worse than MacPorts, including gcc and all that jazz. Otherwise I’d use it.

How do I get a formula from someone else’s branch?

gem install github
github pull someone_else