$PATH error in brew doctor in Cakebrew

[Julcello692]

Hi there! I have a question about an error I’ve been getting. I’ve looked online and tried multiple solutions, but none of them have worked.

I am running OS X Yosemite 10.10.1, and I have the latest version of Cakebrew, which is 1.0.10.

When I run “brew doctor” in Terminal, it says that my system is ready to brew. However, when I run brew doctor in Cakebrew, I get the following:

Warning: /usr/bin occurs before /usr/local/bin
This means that system-provided programs will be used instead of those
provided by Homebrew. The following tools exist at both paths:

erb
gem
git
git-cvsserver
git-receive-pack
git-shell
git-upload-archive
git-upload-pack
irb
rake
rdoc
ri
ruby

Consider setting your PATH so that /usr/local/bin
occurs before /usr/bin. Here is a one-liner:
echo export PATH='/usr/local/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bash_profile
Warning: Homebrew's bin was not found in your PATH.
Consider setting the PATH for example like so
echo export PATH='/usr/local/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bash_profile
Please note that these warnings are just used to help the Homebrew maintainers
with debugging if you file an issue. If everything you use Homebrew for is
working fine: please don't worry and just ignore them. Thanks!

I am currently running ZSH, and I tried editing .zshrc and /etc/zshenv regarding PATH, but the error still persists. When I put “echo $PATH” in Terminal, I get the following output:

/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin

Since /usr/local/bin is before /usr/bin in my PATH, I don’t quite understand why I’m getting this error, and I don’t get why Terminal doesn’t output the same error.

Would you please help me figure this out? I noticed that homebrew doesn’t seem to be updating directly from the command line and I have to upgrade formulae through Cakebrew. I think it has to do with the error, since git is shared both by the system and homebrew.

Thanks so much for any help with this!

[brunophilipe]

Hi. This is a known problem with ZSH. It happens because Cakebrew runs the shell in login mode, and ZSH uses different profile files for login mode and "normal" mode. Please check this issue: #65 (comment)

[Julcello692]

Thank you, I actually just did the export PATH line in both a ~/.zprofile and ~/.zlogin that I had to create, but I'm still getting the same error. Any suggestions?

[brunophilipe]

Hm, sorry. I have no idea what to do next. However, if running brew doctor in the terminal gives you no errors, you should not have any problems with the homebrew packages. For now, I believe you can disregard the error inside Cakebrew.

[Julcello692]

Okay, sounds good. I'll disregard the error then. Thanks so much!