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setup.py doesn't use `HOMEBREW_PREFIX` to find Homebrew (sometimes it can't find it)
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Issue
Homebrew installs in either a default directory (based on factors such as the macOS version installing Homebrew, the Homebrew version being installed, etc.) or a user-specified directory.
Homebrew provides a HOMEBREW_PREFIX environment variable in order to locate where it's installed.
While setup.py takes a few guesses as to where Homebrew is located (setup.py#L213-L219), it does not use the environment variable which is likely to have the location:
https://github.com/mkleehammer/pyodbc/blob/7b4e27781c7f1b75995ecca73d3018c929f4adef/setup.py#L213-L219
If the user installed Homebrew in a user-specified directory, setup.py is not able to find Homebrew and fails to run.