[digikam] [Bug 350446] Port MacOS PKG to Arm64 Apple Silicon.

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https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=350446

--- Comment #13 from caulier.gilles at gmail.com ---
Hi,

I tried a few month ago to build the PKG installer of digiKam using homebrew
instead macports on my M1 computer. It was a failure due to multiple reasons.

First, homebrew do not have a port variant option as macports. This is a very
important feature that main pakages manager as macports or vcpkg supports. For
digiKam this is important for Qt6 installation which do not support the
mysql/mariadb qtsqlplugin by default and the qtmultimedia backend compiled with
ffmpeg.

Second problem is the target directories structure generated by homebrew which
is completelydifferent that macports or vcpkg and need extra works to rearrange
files in the PKG to work as expected. Typically, we attempt to found a unix
like treeview to hst all files by categories (or something like that. This
point is really a pain and a big failure at run time when the PKG is completed.

Compiling the wole code with homebrew trough the scripts is not a problem (even
if variant is not supported by homebrew). The packaging is a complex deal, but
i must admit that i discover homebrew for the first time.

Best

Gilles Caulier

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