`installers/mac/preinstall` wrongly assumes `/usr/local/bin` exists and is on PATH

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`installers/mac/preinstall` wrongly assumes `/usr/local/bin` exists and is on PATH #2265

Open Janiczek opened 2 years ago

Janiczek commented 2 years ago

Quick Summary: On new Mac machines, the Elm installer seems to silently fail because /usr/local/bin doesn't exist

Here is a recent discussion from the Elm Slack:

The installer finished but elm wasn't found in the terminal afterwards. Seems like the preinstall script should mkdir -p /usr/local/bin before copying the binaries.

Elm: 0.19.1
Operating System: macOS 12.2.1

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