I am having a rough time getting kstars-bleeding running on my Mac. I am running 10.10.5, and have Xcode 7.2.1 installed.
I am following seanhoughton's instructions, and got as far as this line:

brew install haraldf/kf5/kf5-karchive

before I ran into what looks like a dependency loop?

$ brew install haraldf/kf5/kf5-karchive
==> Installing kf5-karchive from haraldf/kf5
==> Installing dependencies for haraldf/kf5/kf5-karchive: haraldf/kf5/kf5-extra-cmake-modules
==> Installing haraldf/kf5/kf5-karchive dependency: haraldf/kf5/kf5-extra-cmake-modules
==> Downloading download.kde.org/stable/frameworks/5.16/...odules-5.16.0.tar.xz
Already downloaded: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/kf5-extra-cmake-modules-5.16.0.tar.xz
==> cmake . -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS_RELEASE=-DNDEBUG -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_RELEASE=-DNDEBUG -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local/Cellar/kf5-extra-cmake-modules/5.16.0 -DCMAKE_BUIL
==> make install
Error: No such file or directory - (/usr/local/share/kxmlgui5, /private/tmp/kf5-extra-cmake-modules20160317-7933-9a6kzu/extra-cmake-modules-5.16.0/.brew_home/Library/Application Support/kxmlgui5)

(It's looking for kxmlgui5), so

$ brew install haraldf/kf5/kf5-kxmlgui
==> Installing kf5-kxmlgui from haraldf/kf5
==> Installing dependencies for haraldf/kf5/kf5-kxmlgui: haraldf/kf5/kf5-extra-cmake-modules, haraldf/kf5/kf5-kconfig, gettext, libffi, glib, shared-mime-inf
==> Installing haraldf/kf5/kf5-kxmlgui dependency: haraldf/kf5/kf5-extra-cmake-modules
==> Downloading download.kde.org/stable/frameworks/5.16/...odules-5.16.0.tar.xz
Already downloaded: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/kf5-extra-cmake-modules-5.16.0.tar.xz
==> cmake . -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS_RELEASE=-DNDEBUG -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_RELEASE=-DNDEBUG -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local/Cellar/kf5-extra-cmake-modules/5.16.0 -DCMAKE_BUIL
==> make install
Error: No such file or directory - (/usr/local/share/kxmlgui5, /private/tmp/kf5-extra-cmake-modules20160317-8047-1vyebhq/extra-cmake-modules-5.16.0/.brew_home/Library/Application Support/kxmlgui5)

(kmlgui depends upon extra-cmake-modules, which in turn depends upon kxmlgui)

Any ideas? After about 3 or 4 days of dealing with dependencies, I got Fink to install kstars, but it did not include INDI or Ekos, so I spent another few days getting -bleeding to compile, only to run into a very nasty part-Brew, part-Fink mess that was causing runtime library problems. So I removed Brew and Fink (and all the stuff they installed) completely, and am starting from scratch with this recipe...

Best,
Jimbo

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