Is there a way to recursively build from source?

[osalbahr]

Additional Info

• I am using Windows Subsystem for Linux

Output of brew config

HOMEBREW_VERSION: 4.4.1-62-g6f17b06
ORIGIN: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew
HEAD: 6f17b0644771e0a1d7c15ac72471dae2ef87314a
Last commit: 2 days ago
Core tap JSON: 20 Oct 09:57 UTC
HOMEBREW_PREFIX: /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew
HOMEBREW_REPOSITORY: /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew
HOMEBREW_CASK_OPTS: []
HOMEBREW_DISPLAY: :0
HOMEBREW_EDITOR: /usr/bin/nano
HOMEBREW_MAKE_JOBS: 10
HOMEBREW_SORBET_RUNTIME: set
Homebrew Ruby: 3.3.5 => /usr/bin/ruby
CPU: 10-core 64-bit arm
Clang: N/A
Git: 2.47.0 => /bin/git
Curl: 8.6.0 => /bin/curl
Kernel: Linux 6.11.0-400.asahi.fc40.aarch64+16k aarch64 GNU/Linux
OS: Fedora Linux Asahi Remix 40 (Workstation Edition)
Host glibc: 2.39
/usr/bin/gcc: 14.2.1
/usr/bin/ruby: 3.3.5
glibc: N/A
gcc@11: N/A
gcc: N/A
xorg: N/A

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Description of issue

I wanted to brew install gh but I need to build it from source. I am fine with that. However, I also need to build the dependency go from source.

Is there a way to "build from source recursively"?

Or do I need to manually mark go as "installed as dependency"? If so, how do I do that?

logs:

$ brew info gh
==> gh: stable 2.59.0, HEAD
GitHub command-line tool
https://cli.github.com/
Not installed
From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/HEAD/Formula/g/gh.rb
License: MIT
==> Dependencies
Build: go ✘
==> Options
--HEAD
	Install HEAD version
==> Analytics
install: 126,386 (30 days), 353,900 (90 days), 1,150,489 (365 days)
install-on-request: 126,223 (30 days), 353,299 (90 days), 1,147,764 (365 days)
build-error: 66 (30 days)
$ brew install gh
==> Downloading https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula.jws.json
##O=#  #                                                                        
Warning: Your CPU architecture (arm64) is not supported. We only support
x86_64 CPU architectures. You will be unable to use binary packages (bottles).
It is expected behaviour that some formulae will fail to build in this unsupported configuration.
It is expected behaviour that Homebrew will be buggy and slow.
Do not create any issues about this on Homebrew's GitHub repositories.
Do not create any issues even if you think this message is unrelated.
Any opened issues will be immediately closed without response.
Do not ask for help from Homebrew or its maintainers on social media.
You may ask for help in Homebrew's discussions but are unlikely to receive a response.
Try to figure out the problem yourself and submit a fix as a pull request.
We will review it but may or may not accept it.

Error: gh: no bottle available!
If you're feeling brave, you can try to install from source with:
  brew install --build-from-source gh

It is expected behaviour that most formulae will fail to build from source.
It is expected behaviour that Homebrew will be buggy and slow when building from source.
Do not create any issues about failures building from source on Homebrew's GitHub repositories.
Do not create any issues building from source even if you think this message is unrelated.
Any opened issues will be immediately closed without response.
Do not ask for help from Homebrew or its maintainers on social media.
You may ask for help building from source in Homebrew's discussions but are unlikely to receive a response.
If building from source fails, try to figure out the problem yourself and submit a fix as a pull request.
We will review it but may or may not accept it.
$ brew install -s gh
Warning: Your CPU architecture (arm64) is not supported. We only support
x86_64 CPU architectures. You will be unable to use binary packages (bottles).
It is expected behaviour that some formulae will fail to build in this unsupported configuration.
It is expected behaviour that Homebrew will be buggy and slow.
Do not create any issues about this on Homebrew's GitHub repositories.
Do not create any issues even if you think this message is unrelated.
Any opened issues will be immediately closed without response.
Do not ask for help from Homebrew or its maintainers on social media.
You may ask for help in Homebrew's discussions but are unlikely to receive a response.
Try to figure out the problem yourself and submit a fix as a pull request.
We will review it but may or may not accept it.

==> Fetching dependencies for gh: go
Error: go: no bottle available!
If you're feeling brave, you can try to install from source with:
  brew install --build-from-source go

It is expected behaviour that most formulae will fail to build from source.
It is expected behaviour that Homebrew will be buggy and slow when building from source.
Do not create any issues about failures building from source on Homebrew's GitHub repositories.
Do not create any issues building from source even if you think this message is unrelated.
Any opened issues will be immediately closed without response.
Do not ask for help from Homebrew or its maintainers on social media.
You may ask for help building from source in Homebrew's discussions but are unlikely to receive a response.
If building from source fails, try to figure out the problem yourself and submit a fix as a pull request.
We will review it but may or may not accept it.

[daeho-ro]

I think homebrew only support the bottle for linux with intel not aarch64. So there is no pre-build packages and all of the dependencies are built from source.

[osalbahr]

Understandable

[gromgit]

I don't think there's a way to implicitly build dependencies from source, and I can see a good reason for that: if brew install -s gh also built go from source without marking it as "installed by request", then brew cleanup and brew rm can auto-remove it, which would piss off most people considering how long go takes to build. If that happened to gcc, rust, and every other heavyweight dev toolchain on your system, I'm guessing you'd be about ready to toss your machine out a high window. 😁

So I think you're pretty much stuck with brew install -s $(brew deps gh) gh.

[osalbahr]

Yeah. This is the workaround I will probably use. Or, I might use an unsupported prefix since asahi is already unsupported anyways.

I am curious though if there are already efforts to support asahi that I can help with

Edit: I ended up using an unsupported prefix which made it so it automatically "recursively builds from source".

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This is probably the "tracking" discussion:

• install brew on Linux with ARM processor #3612

I also found a potential related roadmap:

• GitHub Actions: Arm based hosted runners for OSS github/roadmap#970