Playground fails to build if vips installed globally

[dmsnell]

Could not install the npm dependencies and noticed this error:

npm ERR! code 1
npm ERR! path /Users/dmsnell/code/a8c/wordpress-playground/node_modules/sharp
npm ERR! command failed
npm ERR! command sh -c -- (node install/libvips && node install/dll-copy && prebuild-install) || (node install/can-compile && node-gyp rebuild && node install/dll-copy)
npm ERR! sharp: Detected globally-installed libvips v8.15.0
npm ERR! sharp: Building from source via node-gyp
npm ERR!   TOUCH Release/obj.target/libvips-cpp.stamp
npm ERR!   CC(target) Release/obj.target/nothing/node_modules/node-addon-api/nothing.o
npm ERR!   LIBTOOL-STATIC Release/nothing.a
npm ERR!   CXX(target) Release/obj.target/sharp-darwin-arm64v8/src/common.o
npm ERR! gyp info it worked if it ends with ok
…
npm ERR! Package libarchive was not found in the pkg-config search path.
npm ERR! Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libarchive.pc'
npm ERR! to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
npm ERR! Package 'libarchive', required by 'vips', not found

After I removed vips from my system I was able to npm ci again without problem. Not sure if it's possible to prevent this, but it's surprising that the local build fails because of a global package.

[eliot-akira]

Apparently the issue is specific to libvips installed via Homebrew.

Following some clues/leads:

• Enhancement: Major overhaul of installation lovell/sharp#3750

• Resolving macOS Ventura Failed to Install Npm Package Sharp After Brew Upgrade Vips to 8.15.0_1

• https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/v/vips.rb

  From the file's history, this commit looks like it fixed the issue:

  • vips: inreplace pkgconfig files to find libarchive

    pkg-config --libs vips includes libarchive, but that package is keg-only so it needs to look for the pkgconfig file in libarchive's opt path.

So the solution is probably to update the Homebrew formula to vips 8.15.1.