Homebrew is just a way of compiling upstream packages. If homebrew is broken building from source will be broken too.

Homebrew distributes prebuilt binary packages. It’s possible that the architecture for this is improperly set up and does not understand that different architectures exist: unlike macports, homebrew was born after the x86 transition.

That’s why one user above suggests `-s`: it forces a compilation from source.

The problems with homebrew packages at present are mostly down to projects like Go and Rust not being updated for M1 ARM yet and hence sources not compiling properly rather than a problem with homebrew itself. So users attempting to compile from original upstream sources would run into similar problems.

They have an overview issue here:

https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/7857

Rust does have tier 2 support, but it hasn’t made its way to stable yet. This means if you did try in upstream today, it would work.

That approach has always ended badly in my experience because your manual installs will require more care to remove than the Hombrew ones. My usual recommendation is to install anything which supports it using --HEAD which will keep things tracked and make it trivial to either completely uninstall or simply use "brew reinstall" packages after the upstream stabilizes.

> I don't want to deal with any sort of migration / funky re-install, personally.

Isn't the benefit of Homebrew that it all goes into /usr/local and it can just blow everything away if necessary? You could run `brew leaves` to see what packages you have, uninstall everything, and reinstall. Easier than keeping track of what you've manually installed where.

> I don't want to deal with any sort of migration / funky re-install, personally.

Wouldn't this just make things even messier? Some packages from Homebrew and some compiled from source that you have to remember to update manually?

In the short run yeah. You have a point. I intend to uninstall & reinstall everything once Homebrew is officially supported though, which isn't a big deal for me (and I actually kind of enjoy building from source just for the experience).

But these replies are making me think that a large part of my decision to do this is motivated by me just not understanding Homebrew well enough (e.g. how easy it is to nuke everything). Oh well, we'll see how it goes.