Get Mountain Lion and Homebrew to Be Happy

mountain-lion-brew-setup.markdown

Get Mountain Lion and Homebrew to Be Happy

1) Install XCode 4.3 into /Applications

Get it from http://developer.apple.com. You will not be able to submit apps to any stores using this XCode version, so turn away if that is something you might want to do.

2) Install Command Line Tools

In XCode's Preferences > Downloads you can install command line tools.

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3) Let Everyone Know Where XCode Is

sudo xcode-select -switch /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer

4) Install X11

Visit http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/wiki and download and install 2.7.0.

You will need to fix the symlink it makes:

sudo mv /usr/X11 /usr/X11.old
sudo mv /usr/X11R6 /usr/X11

5) Get GCC

Visit https://github.com/kennethreitz/osx-gcc-installer and download and install GCC-10.7.pkg.

Now, since most of this happened late last night, I am not 100% sure this is necessary after you've done the xcode-select, but I remember doing this. If you find it's not necessary, please let me know so I can remove it as a step.

6) Check Yo PATH

My path:

PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/mysql/bin:~/bin:/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/X11/bin"

7) Reinstall your brews

brew list

Will tell you what you need to check. Try out everything one by one and when one doesn't work brew remove it and then reinstall it. If the install doesn't work, try brew install it --use-gcc to prevent llvm from getting in the way.

Things that gave me issues that I had to remove and install:

• libxml2
• libxslt
• macvim
• imagemagick
• ghostscript

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Let me know if I missed anything.

I've been trying to help a friend with this. It seems to be some kind of account issue on Apple's side.
I can confirm what @uipoet said, the command line tools download is now located under the XCode 4.4 listing on https://developer.apple.com/downloads .
I can login in to the developer downloads and see it there, and XCode also properly downloads it from the Preferences Pane. For my friend, he can't see it in the apple developer download list, nor can he download it in XCode. Odd indeed.

UPDATE - He just tried again and it works.

Thanks, Nick. That message wasn't coming across earlier in the thread.

Several people have proclaimed the download is available in the list, but it simply isn't for some people or some of the time as you have revealed. It's not that they're not looking hard enough. That's why I recommended someone just put it on ge.tt, which they did.

It makes the most sense to me for peeps to just use the ge.tt links as those are pretty consistent and doesn't differ by login.

http://ge.tt/3mes23L/v/0?c
http://ge.tt/2AqB42L/v/0?c

Problem solved.

Yup, I wasn't seeing the XCode 4.4 CLTs on the Apple downloads site at all. I was seeing a pretty recent version for XCode 4.3 (late July), but I understand these don't work with Mountain Lion.

I'm on a newly upgraded XCode-less system (Lion to Mountain Lion) and I installed the version here (http://ge.tt/3mes23L/v/0?c). It seemed to work well, and homebrew started working again. I needed to do an extra step to make all formulas update/install properly (notably node):

sudo xcode-select -switch /usr/bin

See this gist: Homebrew/legacy-homebrew#13337 (comment)

These steps have basically straightened out my environment, all without installing XCode.

https://img.skitch.com/20120726-cbppugi2ctbumx5n918h3rb2wx.png

Mountain Lion version of Command Line Tools can be downloaded separately. Look inside the Xcode 4.4 tab.

No no, some of us aren't even seeing the XCode 4.4 tab at all, so no option to download those command line tools, even as a sub option. Not sure why this is. I'm in the UK and on a non-paying dev account, so maybe that's partly the reason?

@alexagui Did you not read https://gist.github.com/1860902#gistcomment-379892 or do you just not believe us?

The command line tools on developer.apple.com currently don't work on 10.8. You can however use Xcode->Preferences->Downloads and hit install next to "commandline tools" there. That works on 10.8 (tested with xcode 4.4).

Also tested on XC 4.5b3 with internal CLTs.

@myobie for me sudo ln -s /usr/bin/gcc /usr/bin/gcc-4.2 was needed too (to install json gem, for example).

After installing Xcode 4.4, if there is nothing from the Xcode-Preference-Downloads pane, just restart Xcode itself. Then the command line tool appears in the list.

So far, this has been a BIG help. Thanks!

@tomekw that solved my problem, thanks.

See also

• http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/27985816073/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-riding-a-mountain-lion
• http://coderwall.com/p/dtbuqg

I've updated the gist with what worked for me and added some of the other links that people have posted.

sudo xcodebuild -license

this step might be necessary sometimes too.

Seems that the august update for the command line tools just landed: https://developer.apple.com/downloads/index.action

Symbolic link in brew link does not work.

Nolis-MacBook-Pro:GEOS nsicad$ brew install spatialindex
dyld: DYLD_ environment variables being ignored because main executable (/usr/bin/sudo) is setuid or setgid
==> Downloading http://download.osgeo.org/libspatialindex/spatialindex-src-1.7.1.tar.gz
Already downloaded: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/spatialindex-1.7.1.tar.gz
==> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/spatialindex/1.7.1 --disable-debug
==> make
==> make install
Error: The linking step did not complete successfully
The formula built, but is not symlinked into /usr/local
You can try again using `brew link spatialindex'
==> Summary
/usr/local/Cellar/spatialindex/1.7.1: 40 files, 2.8M, built in 28 seconds
Nolis-MacBook-Pro:GEOS nsicad$ brew list
boost geos libtool pkg-config sip spatialindex
Nolis-MacBook-Pro:GEOS nsicad$ brew link spatialindex
Linking /usr/local/Cellar/spatialindex/1.7.1...
Error: Could not symlink file: /usr/local/Cellar/spatialindex/1.7.1/lib/pkgconfig/libspatialindex.pc
/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig is not writable. You should change its permissions.
Nolis-MacBook-Pro:GEOS nsicad$

This is quite helpful! Thanks for it.

You may need to symlink g++ too.

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/g++ /usr/bin/g++-4.2

Thanks man

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/gcc /usr/bin/g++-4.2

i just added your gist an screenshot, would you like to fork it ? https://gist.github.com/4004926

Added a not about g++, thanks @RudthMael and @andrewsheelan.

@ekinertac your screenshot is not showing up for me.

The best part of your advices was: Reinstall your brews

Today, I ran into all sorts of problems with brew and reinstall my packages and reinstall made the trick.

Even a problema I was having with imagemagick and paperclip.

Thank you! I mean it, thank you!

It was suggested by various blogs to install homebrew's version of gcc-4.2:

brew tap homebrew/dupes && brew install apple-gcc42

RVM will use the brew installed version over the LLVM version.

If you'd like a screenshot, here you go: http://i.imgur.com/NksrHjH.png

Thanks for this!

When I get to step 5 I get the error, "-bash: brew: command not found"
Any ideas?

Here you can find a very useful script to download CLT:

https://gist.github.com/uchida/3559987

is this a joke or what ?

I went thru all the above steps for 10.8.5 but when I went to install Homebrew it gives me this error:

Downloading and installing Homebrew...
fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/': error:1407742E:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:tlsv1 alert protocol version
Failed during: git fetch origin master:refs/remotes/origin/master --tags --force

I tried researching this error but couldn't find anything relevant to my specific issue. I also made sure I had curl installed as that was mentioned in some of the feedback I reviewed, and I have this:

curl 7.24.0 (x86_64-apple-darwin12.0) libcurl/7.24.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8} zlib/1.2.5

The only issue I ran into along the way was with X11, where I got a "Permission Denied" error after entering "ln -s /opt/X11 /usr/X11". However, I installed the latest version of it, which is 2.7.11.