bug#57015: 29.0.50; macOS: libgccjit was not found: Homebrew libgccjit 12.1.0

[Dario Gjorgjevski]

On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 4:32 PM Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dario Gjorgjevski <dario.gjorgjevski@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > The issue was not caused by libgccjit (and gcc) being upgraded to
> > version 12.  It was caused by Homebrew changing the directory
> > structure in the way I described, which just happened to coincide with
> > the upgrade from version 11 to version 12.
> >
> > On a side note, I have no idea why Homebrew chose to make
> > lib/gcc/${major_version} a symlink to lib/gcc/current as opposed to
> > the other way around.
>
> Should this perhaps be considered a bug in Homebrew, instead?

This was an intentional change, so I doubt they would reconsider it.
It is, in my opinion, not a very good one, but it is what it is.

Best regards,
Dario