fixed, had to do this at the command line:

Qt5DBus_DIR=/Users/stephanelucas/Qt5.7.0/5.7/clang_64/lib/cmake/Qt5DBus/
and remove from kf5-kdbusaddons.rb
depends_on "d-bus"

the KF5 installation is going ahead now ('til the net snag).... lol

I just woke up, sounds like some great progress so far. KStars does use dbus. I know it is definitely used for controlling the program with a dbus based script, but I dont know what else. I could look into it.

Nice!

There was one other reason we were using emerge, it is a sure way to get all the KDE apps set up that KStars is going to need in order to run things like download new stuff work properly

mmmm this is odd.. it worked for one but not for this one...

OK, good news and bad news. I've overcome the Qt5DBus_DIR issue by adding to the .rb file:
"-DQt5DBus_DIR=/Users/stephanelucas/Qt5.7.0/5.7/clang_64/lib/cmake/Qt5DBus/"
but them it conflicts with "-DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/usr/local/Cellar/qt5/5.7.0"
So, I'm going to go ahead with my hack way for now, but I will probably have to re-install my KF5 brew after some slight path correction.

TBC...


EDIT:
I have removed KF5, tap it again and ran my sed command with this time a slight change, used the Qt5 dmg files instead of brew
sed -i '.bak' 's/*args/"-DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=\/Users\/stephanelucas\/Qt5.7.0\/5.7\/clang_64\/", *args/g' *.rb

But I am now getting this:
gettext is there:


EDIT:
the following fixed the gettext issue:

Stephanes-MacBook-Air:~ stephanelucas$ brew search kf5auth
No formula found for "kf5auth".
==> Searching pull requests...
Error: GitHub API Error: API rate limit exceeded for 212.. (But here's the good news: Authenticated requests get a higher rate limit. Check out the documentation for more details.)
Try again in 22 minutes 54 seconds, or create a personal access token:
github.com/settings/tokens/new?scopes=gi...description=Homebrew
and then set the token as: export HOMEBREW_GITHUB_API_TOKEN="your_new_token"
Stephanes-MacBook-Air:~ stephanelucas$

I have now successfully installed all of the above (they do need quite a few dependencies....)


I am 100% sure I can remove brew Qt5 as I did not use it, I've used the dmg installed one (as per my sed command).

I am currently running: ./build-kstars.sh -ia3c
it will take some time, no idea how long. Will report soon.

so far so good, I'm at:

While I wait for the cmake to finish, one observation:

Can we not have this as kstars-emerge instead?

I ran the above commands,

Going to try the dmg now on the MBP