libicns failed to build on 10.8.2

[janlimpens]

==> Upgrading libicns
==> Downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/icns/libicns-0.8.1.tar.
Already downloaded: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/libicns-0.8.1.tar.gz
==> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/libicns/0.8.1
==> make install
      _WritePNGImage in icns2png.o
ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture i386
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
make[1]: *** [icns2png] Error 1
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

Error: libicns did not build

https://gist.github.com/3897056

~ ❯❯❯ brew doctor
Your system is raring to brew.

[jacknagel]

https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/Troubleshooting

[Raynes]

I've got this same issue. Not sure what I'm supposed to be looking at in the troubleshooting section, but nothing seems relevant.

[janlimpens]

Yip, same here.

[mgol]

Same here. Due to this issue brew install wine fails.

[mistydemeo]

@Raynes We're looking for the information the troubleshooting page requests be provided, which is what will let us figure out what the problem is.

[Raynes]

https://gist.github.com/3907782 is the log output.

[mistydemeo]

Can you try this:

brew rm libpng
brew install libpng --universal

And then let me know if you can build libicns?

[Raynes]

That did the trick!

[janlimpens]

Misty De Meo@17/102012:

brew rm libpng
brew install libpng --universal

here, too :)

[Raynes]

Note that in order to build wine (which was the end goal here), I needed to build freetype as universal as well.

[mistydemeo]

Reopening, since a real fix is dependent on #14456.

[rinchen]

libpng trick worked for me too.

HOMEBREW_VERSION: 0.9.3
HEAD: 55cfbdf
HOMEBREW_PREFIX: /usr/local
HOMEBREW_CELLAR: /usr/local/Cellar
CPU: 8-core 64-bit ivybridge
OS X: 10.8.2-x86_64
Xcode: 4.5.2
CLT: 4.5.0.0.1.1249367152
LLVM-GCC: build 2336
Clang: 4.1 build 421
X11: 2.7.4 => /opt/X11
System Ruby: 1.8.7-358
Perl: /usr/bin/perl
Python: /usr/bin/python
Ruby: /usr/bin/ruby => /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/bin/ruby

[agrawalankur]

libpng trick worked for me too.

[rabialam]

thirded

[binary132]

Had to rebuild Freetype as well as libpng as Universal. Then it worked. (Build took 18 minutes on my 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo. Didn't realize to expect that! lol.)

[jfmercer]

libpng trick worked for me

[ethereal-engineer]

--universal worked great thx!

[oschrenk]

brew rm libpng
brew install libpng --universal

👍

[rodrigoSyscop]

brew rm libpng
brew install libpng --universal

Works for me too.

[silvansky]

Thanks for workaround with libpng!

[terryblood]

brew rm libpng
brew install libpng --universal

Works for me too.

[glittershark]

brew install libpng --universal
looks like it takes me to a dead link

[Japh]

@glittershark: I got the dead link too. I downloaded the libpng-1.5.13.tar.gz file from here http://sourceforge.net/projects/libpng/files/libpng15/older-releases/1.5.13/ and put it in /Library/Caches/Homebrew/, then ran again. Worked fine.

[tanaydin]

workaround is not working anymore... I'm getting

tanaydin•/usr/local(master)» brew rm libpng Uninstalling /usr/local/Cellar/libpng/1.5.14...
tanaydin•/usr/local(master)» brew install libpng --universal
==> Downloading http://downloads.sf.net/project/libpng/libpng15/older-releases/1.5.14/libpng-1.5.14.tar.gz
==> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/libpng/1.5.14
==> make install
/usr/local/Cellar/libpng/1.5.14: 15 files, 1.3M, built in 35 seconds
tanaydin•/usr/local(master)» brew install --universal libicns
==> Downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/icns/libicns-0.8.1.tar.gz
==> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/libicns/0.8.1
==> make install
_WritePNGImage in icns2png.o
ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture i386
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
make[1]: *** [icns2png] Error 1
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

[ar2rsawseen]

I had libpng already preinstalled before brew and for some reason it was always using it (although I've relinked using brew). Manually removing it from /usr/local helped install libicns through brew