On 24.02.2018 13:22, Paul Hammant wrote: > The homebrew install does a source compile rather than pluck of a > binary and compare to a SHA256 ?
Depends. By default, it'll get a binary, if it's available (that binary is of course built from source using Homebrew's formulae). If a binary isn't available for your fomula/platform/flags combination, or if you force it to --build-from-source, it'll do just that. -- Brane