Can't install ncdu with Homebrew on a fresh machine

[revolter]

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• [x] Ran brew doctor, fixed all issues and retried your prior step?
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To help us debug your issue please explain:

• What you were trying to do (and why)

I was trying to install ncdu using linuxbrew.

• What happened (include command output)

It crashed with the error configure: error: required header file not found.

• What you expected to happen

Install required dependencies then complete the ncdu installation successfully.

• Step-by-step reproduction instructions (by running brew install commands)

Run brew install ncdu on a fresh machine.

I noticed that if I install neovim beforehand, ncdu installs correctly, so I thought that the spec doesn't list its required dependencies. A related issue can be found here.

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[JCount]

@revolter As this is pertains to a Linuxbrew installation, please file your issue at Linuxbrew/homebrew-core/issues as they will best be able to assist you.

[revolter]

Aren't the spec files shared between the 2 projects?

[MikeMcQuaid]

We don't support Linux here.

[revolter]

But the Formula is here!

[MikeMcQuaid]

@revolter Yes but because you use Linuxbrew it's using this: https://github.com/Linuxbrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/ncdu.rb. This is Homebrew, we don't support Linux for Homebrew and Linuxbrew is a completely separate project run by different people.

[revolter]

They are identical, because Linuxbrew's homebrew-core is a fork. Also, I don't think the issue is only on Linux, it just happened for me to discover it o a Linux machine. Having installed a lot of packages in my main macOS system, I can't test this.

[MikeMcQuaid]

They are identical, because Linuxbrew's homebrew-core is a fork.

That's irrelevant to this discussion because we don't support Linux or Linuxbrew here. Additionally, the actual brew logic differs on Homebrew and Linuxbrew so the formula being identical still doesn't mean these issues are reproducible on macOS.

Also, I don't think the issue is only on Linux, it just happened for me to discover it o a Linux machine. Having installed a lot of packages in my main macOS system, I can't test this.

We are only interested in issues you have having on macOS. If you have a macOS system and can reproduce this issue and submit a brew gist-logs from there we will look at fixing it. We will not look at fixing issues on Linux because we do not support Linux, do not run Homebrew on Linux and never plan to do so.