Installation Issue on MacOS Monterey - M1 Mac Pro about extism HOT 5 CLOSED

Closing this because the new CLI has been released

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Maybe this needs to change to require sudo: https://github.com/extism/cli/blob/987f0fdbcfe103a578fc57c385bf831c8733ecc4/extism_cli/__init__.py#L349

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Looks like it is asking for your password though. So that's confusing

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I cannot seem to repro. Trying a new bash session too:

[I] ben@m1lap ~ [1]> rm /usr/local/include/extism.h
override rwxr-xr-x root/wheel for /usr/local/include/extism.h? 
[I] ben@m1lap ~> extism install latest
Getting release for latest
Installing to /usr/local/ (version v0.1.0)
Password:
Installed /usr/local/lib/libextism.dylib
Installed /usr/local/include/extism.h

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I believe the issue is because I did not have a /usr/local/include folder, and the /usr/local dir is only writable by root on my Mac. If you look at the cp definition itself, it will auto-sudo if the path is in /usr/.

However, the python makedirs command is being used to create the directory. Even though the script does a sudo later for writing the file, and that works correctly if the path already exists, the script fails if you do not yet have /usr/local/include. I think os.mkdir needs to be wrapped in an auto-sudo like the cp function (and run mkdir -p {path} to recursively make the directory from a subprocess.)

Here are the permissions for my /usr/local showing it's only writable by root

➜  local ls -al /usr/local
total 0
drwxr-xr-x   6 root  wheel  192 Dec 29 17:09 .
drwxr-xr-x@ 11 root  wheel  352 Aug 24 01:59 ..
drwxr-xr-x  14 root  wheel  448 Dec 22 21:58 bin
drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel   96 Dec 29 17:09 include
drwxr-xr-x   4 root  wheel  128 Dec 29 17:08 lib
drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel   96 Dec 19 19:14 share

Here's the listing of my include dir showing extism is the only thing in there. you may have already had this directory created so didn't run into this issue, since the cp command is correctly sudoing. The only issue seems to be in the mkdir part.

➜  local ls -al /usr/local/include
total 8
drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel    96 Dec 29 17:09 .
drwxr-xr-x  6 root  wheel   192 Dec 29 17:09 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  3042 Dec 29 17:09 extism.h

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