The root directory of homebrew is hard-coded.

[easior]

Today, I try to build OpenFOAM 2.3.1 on my MBP. I found your work for it. It's so great!

However, I also found something defective on your patches because the root directory of homebrew is hard-coded. e.g. there is the following line in OpenFOAM-2.3.1.patch:

export BOOST_ARCH_PATH=/usr/local/opt/boost

However, my homebrew is installed in to $HOME/Developer. I recommend that all /usr/local in your patches should replaced by brew --prefix.

E.L.

[mrklein]

Here is a citation from Homebrew documentation:

However do yourself a favor and install to /usr/local. Some things may not build when installed elsewhere. One of the reasons Homebrew just works relative to the competition is because we recommend installing to /usr/local. Pick another prefix at your peril!