in reply to Imager support for PNG, JPEG and GIF on macOS Sonoma

The way to get the Homebrew-installed location of a given package is (here) brew --prefix giflib, which would avoid needing the "locate" stuff.

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Re^2: Imager support for PNG, JPEG and GIF on macOS Sonoma
by Anonymous Monk on Jan 13, 2026 at 00:01 UTC
    > The way to get the Homebrew-installed location of a given package is (here) brew --prefix giflib, which would avoid needing the "locate" stuff.

    I know this node is old but it might be wrong so let's go.

    Thanks etj but --prefix doesn't seem to return the requred paths: 

    % brew --prefix giflib
/opt/homebrew/opt/giflib

% ls -l /opt/homebrew/opt/giflib
lrwxr-xr-x /opt/homebrew/opt/giflib -> ../Cellar/giflib/5.2.2
    Required: 
    --incpath=/opt/homebrew/include 
--libpath=/opt/homebrew/var/homebrew/linked/giflib/lib
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