Installing openCV 2.4.2 on Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks)

Question

I\'m trying to install openCV 2.4.2 (not the newest version but stable version compatible with newer OS X according to several sources) on Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). I have

Answer 1

This may be related to the current issues with Qt on Mavericks.

See: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/pull/23793

I'd try installing the current patched homebrew keg for qt, and then installing opencv:

brew update
brew uninstall opencv
brew uninstall qt
brew install -v https://raw.github.com/cliffrowley/homebrew/patched_qt/Library/Formula/qt.rb --HEAD
brew install opencv

Caution to the wind: the qt build took me about an hour to complete