Issue Installing on Patched version of macOS 15.4.1.

[tadscottsmith]

I'm running into an issue installing with Homebrew on a patched version of macOS 15.4.1 using OpenCore Legacy Patcher to attempt to run from a late 2015 MacBook Pro.

==> Fetching trunkrecorder/install/trunk-recorder
==> Cloning https://github.com/TrunkRecorder/trunk-recorder.git
Updating /Users/tadsmith/Library/Caches/Homebrew/trunk-recorder--git
==> Checking out branch master
Already on 'master'
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/master'.
HEAD is now at 6e9887a Update main.yml
==> Installing trunk-recorder from trunkrecorder/install
==> Installing dependencies for trunkrecorder/install/trunk-recorder: trunkrecorder/install/gr-osmosdr
==> Installing trunkrecorder/install/trunk-recorder dependency: trunkrecorder/install/gr-osmosdr
==> python3 -m venv --system-site-packages --without-pip /usr/local/Cellar/gr-osmosdr/0.2.6/libexec/venv
==> python3 -m pip --python=/usr/local/Cellar/gr-osmosdr/0.2.6/libexec/venv/bin/python install /private/tmp/gr-osmosdr--Cheetah3-20250425-59024-ngvloc/Cheetah3-3.2.5
Last 15 lines from /Users/tadsmith/Library/Logs/Homebrew/gr-osmosdr/02.python3:
  else:
      filename = "<auto-generated setuptools caller>"
      setup_py_code = "from setuptools import setup; setup()"

  exec(compile(setup_py_code, filename, "exec"))
  '"'"''"'"''"'"' % ('"'"'/private/tmp/gr-osmosdr--Cheetah3-20250425-59024-ngvloc/Cheetah3-3.2.5/setup.py'"'"',), "<pip-setuptools-caller>", "exec"))' egg_info --egg-base /private/tmp/pip-pip-egg-info-2jv6zqnh
  cwd: /private/tmp/gr-osmosdr--Cheetah3-20250425-59024-ngvloc/Cheetah3-3.2.5/
  Preparing metadata (setup.py): finished with status 'error'
error: metadata-generation-failed

× Encountered error while generating package metadata.
╰─> See above for output.

note: This is an issue with the package mentioned above, not pip.
hint: See above for details.

If reporting this issue please do so at (not Homebrew/* repositories):
  https://github.com/trunkrecorder/homebrew-install/issues

[tadscottsmith]

I dug deeper in and found this error:

    File "/private/tmp/gr-osmosdr--Cheetah3-20250427-2771-kesftk/Cheetah3-3.2.5/SetupTools.py", line 6, in <module>
      from distutils.command.install_data import install_data
  ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils

It seems distutils was removed in Python 3.12: https://peps.python.org/pep-0632/

I was able to manually install the setup tools with brew install python-setuptools and then the install completed successfully.

/usr/local/Cellar/gr-osmosdr/0.2.6: 152 files, 2.3MB, built in 2 minutes 56 seconds
/usr/local/Cellar/trunk-recorder/5.0.2: 86 files, 9.7MB, built in 5 minutes 17 seconds

[taclane]

I've tried this a few times on a similar computer (Late 2013 MBP, OpenCore 4.2, macOS 15.4.1) and haven't managed to get this to happen yet. Even after uninstalling homebrew completely and rebooting, it worked fine with:

• reinstall homebrew
• brew tap trunkrecorder/install
• brew install trunk-decoder

While it wouldn't be too hard to add in python-setuptools as a build-only dependency, it would also be helpful to figure out if there are other issues lurking with older installs.