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Hi! I was wanting to ask a question about building Synfig with Homebrew on an iMac (late 2009, 27-in.) computer. My computer is up to date with the OS (10.7.2) and has the latest version of Xcode side-by-side with Xcode 3.2.6 for Snow Leopard. Here is my issue. In fact I will show it to you what I got from "brew doctor":

brew doctor

/usr/bin/gcc
Your gcc 4.2.x version is older than the recommended version. It may be advisable
to upgrade to the latest release of Xcode.

Some folders in /usr/local/share/man aren't writable.
This can happen if you "sudo make install" software that isn't managed
by Homebrew. If a brew tries to add locale information to one of these
folders, then the install will fail during the link step.
You should probably `chown` them:

/usr/local/share/man/de
/usr/local/share/man/de/man1

==> /usr/bin occurs before /usr/local/bin
This means that system-provided programs will be used instead of those
provided by Homebrew. This is an issue if you eg. brew installed Python.

Consider editing your .bashrc to put:
/usr/local/bin
ahead of /usr/bin in your $PATH.
==> You have uncommitted modifications to Homebrew's core.
Unless you know what you are doing, you should: git reset --hard

I am still a newbie to all this stuff with Homebrew, so please bear with me. I have never needed to chown something before. Also, do you have an example of what a .bashrc would look like? Homebrew suggests I should consider editing it. I know I can write one myself with a text editor, but I never have had any experience in doing so.

I am also assuming that there may be a conflict in between the two versions of Xcode that may be causing my install problem. Could that be so? Homebrew is not recognizing that I have Xcode 4, so I think the path is still in the Xcode 3.2.6 folder and keeping me from compiling "synfigstudio" correctly. The "synfig" install was done flawlessly, but I can't seem to make install "synfigstudio". I have also tried the git reset --hard option to no avail. Does anyone have any advice on this?

Thanks for any and all assistance.

Unfortunately there is not enough people that can help you on this issues. Please be patience between one Mac user gives you some help.
-G

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Hello

I am having trouble installing Synfig on OSX. The simple installer dont work and I hav tried to install via Homebrew also but I got trouble there also, maybe related to yours. I got this error at the end after running brew doctor.

Error: Failed executing: make install
If `brew doctor' does not help diagnose the issue, please report the bug:
https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/c ... -new-issue
msgr-00-estet-bild:~ mathias$ brew doctor
We couldn't detect gcc 4.2.x. Some formulae require this compiler.
NOTE: Versions of XCode newer than 4.2 don't include gcc 4.2.x.

Seems like Synfig needs gcc 4.2.x and its no longer included in Xcode. How can one solve this problem?

I understand that keeping all the platforms up to date is a big job but I hope that it is possible to solve this.