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Kenneth Wolcott <kennethwolcott@gmail.com> writes:

> If I don't install homebrew then what is it that I need to do to
> achieve the objective?  I'd like to use ALR, but it looks like it only
> works for packages that are pure Ada (I'm not 100% sure of that, but
> it seems to be the case).
>
> So please show me what to do that will result in further progress with
> ALR and an M1 chip without using homebrew...

No guarantees here, but ..

If alr says that a particular external package isn't available, then

* instead of saying N say Y and install the requested package using port

* set these environment variables:
  export C_INCLUDE_PATH=/opt/local/include
  export CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH=/opt/local/include
  export LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/local/lib