brew install --only-dependencies does not install all build deps required for the formula #6402

ipatch · 2025-09-10T19:46:58Z

ipatch
Sep 10, 2025

Output of `brew config`

HOMEBREW_VERSION: 4.6.10
ORIGIN: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew
HEAD: 31fb2adc84006f2a8d8533ac82ac34fd9ea34ff1
Last commit: 3 days ago
Branch: stable
Core tap HEAD: 8e4567b69641d2582c681876d3869403ae8effe1
Core tap last commit: 69 minutes ago
Core cask tap: N/A
HOMEBREW_PREFIX: /usr/local
HOMEBREW_CACHE: /usr/local/cache
HOMEBREW_CASK_OPTS: []
HOMEBREW_DEVELOPER: set
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Output of `brew doctor`

==> Cask Environment Variables:
LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
PATH="/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/shims/shared:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin"
SHELL="/usr/local/bin/fish"
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Description of issue

brew tap freecad/freecad
brew install --only-dependencies --formula freecad/freecad/freecad

the above install command does not install cmake or swig which are build time deps for the above mentioned formula

output of brew info --formula freecad

==> freecad/freecad/[email protected]_py312: stable 1.0.2 (bottled), HEAD [keg-only]
Parametric 3D modeler
https://freecad.org/
Not installed
Bottle Size: 103.5MB
Installed Size: 293.0MB
From: https://github.com/freecad/homebrew-freecad/blob/HEAD/Formula/[email protected]_py312.rb
License: GPL-2.0-only
==> Dependencies
Build: cmake ✘, freecad/freecad/[email protected] ✘, gcc ✔, pkg-config ✔
Required: boost ✔, cython ✔, doxygen ✔, expat ✔, fmt ✔, freecad/freecad/[email protected]_py312 ✔, freecad/freecad/fc_bundle_py312 ✔, freecad/freecad/[email protected]_py312 ✔, freecad/freecad/[email protected]_py312 ✔, freecad/freecad/pybind11_py312 ✔, freecad/freecad/[email protected]_py312 ✔, freeimage ✔, freetype ✔, glew ✔, hdf5 ✔, icu4c ✔, nlohmann-json ✔, opencascade ✔, orocos-kdl ✔, [email protected] ✔, qt@5 ✔, tbb ✔, vtk ✔, webp ✔, xerces-c ✔, yaml-cpp ✔, zlib ✔
==> Requirements
Required: macOS >= 10.13 (or Linux) ✔
==> Options
--HEAD
        Install HEAD version
==> Caveats
    After installing FreeCAD you may want to do the following:

    1. Due to recent code signing updates with Catalina and newer
       building a FreeCAD.app bundle using the existing python
       script no longer works due to updating the rpaths of the
       copied executables and libraries into a FreeCAD.app
       bundle, unless performing a work around described in the
       below github issue comment,
       https://github.com/FreeCAD/homebrew-freecad/issues/348#issuecomment-1248927545

    2. presently the freecad py module is NOT globally accessible, ie.
       one cannot directly run `import freecad` from a python v3.12
       repl

[email protected]_py312 is keg-only, which means it was not symlinked into /usr/local,
because this is an alternate version of another formula.

i think there is an internal error for brew install --only-dependencies flag within the brew source code.

Answered by ZhongRuoyu

Sep 10, 2025

brew install --build-from-source --only-dependencies should do what you want.

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ZhongRuoyu · 2025-09-10T19:53:56Z

ZhongRuoyu
Sep 10, 2025
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brew install --build-from-source --only-dependencies should do what you want.

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ipatch Sep 10, 2025
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that make sense. it was only pulling in the runtime deps.

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