Add a file to ~/Library

[MattHardcastle]

I’m writing a Formula for a native component of a Firefox plugin. In order to complete the installation of the component I need to add a manifest file to Firefox’s directory in ~/Library/Application Support.

I'v ran into a couple issues. The HOMEDIR environment variable is overwritten in the Formula so I can't use it to location Firefox's support directory. When I hard-coded the directory for my machine I ran into permissions issues writing to the directory.

Is adding files into ~/Library supported in Homebrew?

[carlocab]

It's not, I'm afraid. You can only write into the formula's prefix and the build directory at build time and (I think) only HOMEBREW_PREFIX at install time.