I just setup a new laptop and used homebrew to install the CouchDB deps (spidermonkey & erlang).
Not only was it super fast and painless but I got a newer spidermonkey (1.8.3) which is something like 30x faster for most of the stuff we do with the view server but I also didn't have to pass any special parameters to ./configure. Anyone object to me remove all references to MacPorts in our Mac install instructions and replacing with homebrew? -Mikeal
