Glib could not be linked

[simonszu]

Well, i tried to install glib , and after compiling, homebrew exits and throws this error:

Warning: m4 macros were installed to "share/aclocal".
Homebrew does not append "/usr/local/share/aclocal"
to "/usr/share/aclocal/dirlist". If an autoconf script you use
requires these m4 macros, you'll need to add this path manually.
ln: ./glib20.mo: Permission denied
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 glib'
Error: Could not create symlink /usr/local/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/glib20.mo.
Check that you have permssions on /usr/local/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES

brew link glib throws the last 2 lines of this error again.

Any other packages which link against glib will fail hereafter.

[adamv]

ln: ./glib20.mo: Permission denied

What does brew doctor say? It looks like some other software was installed that added some root-owned /usr/local/share/locale subfolders.

[simonszu]

This is the output of brew doctor (how do i use quote-tags here?):

~$ brew doctor
If you have installed MacGPG2 via the package installer, several other
checks in this script will turn up problems, such as stray .dylibs in
/usr/local and permissions issues with share and man in /usr/local/.

Unbrewed dylibs were found in /usr/local/lib.

If you didn't put them there on purpose they could cause problems when
building Homebrew formulae, and may need to be deleted.

Unexpected dylibs:
/usr/local/lib/libcharset.1.0.0.dylib
/usr/local/lib/libgcrypt.11.5.2.dylib
/usr/local/lib/libgpg-error.0.5.0.dylib
/usr/local/lib/libiconv.2.4.0.dylib
/usr/local/lib/libusb-0.1.4.4.4.dylib
/usr/local/lib/libusbpp-0.1.4.4.4.dylib

Some folders in /usr/local/share/locale 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/locale/be
/usr/local/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/local/share/locale/ca
/usr/local/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/local/share/locale/cs
/usr/local/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/local/share/locale/da
/usr/local/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/local/share/locale/de
/usr/local/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/local/share/locale/el
/usr/local/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/local/share/locale/en@boldquot
/usr/local/share/locale/en@boldquot/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/local/share/locale/en@quot
/usr/local/share/locale/en@quot/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/local/share/locale/eo
/usr/local/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/local/share/locale/es
/usr/local/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/local/share/locale/et
/usr/local/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/local/share/locale/fi
/usr/local/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/local/share/locale/fr
/usr/local/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/local/share/locale/gl
/usr/local/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/local/share/locale/hu
/usr/local/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/local/share/locale/id
/usr/local/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/local/share/locale/it
/usr/local/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/local/share/locale/ja
/usr/local/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/local/share/locale/nb
/usr/local/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/local/share/locale/pl
/usr/local/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/local/share/locale/pt
/usr/local/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/local/share/locale/pt_BR
/usr/local/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/local/share/locale/ro
/usr/local/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/local/share/locale/ru
/usr/local/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/local/share/locale/sk
/usr/local/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/local/share/locale/sv
/usr/local/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/local/share/locale/tr
/usr/local/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/local/share/locale/vi
/usr/local/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/local/share/locale/zh_CN
/usr/local/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/local/share/locale/zh_TW
/usr/local/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES

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 is in your PATH before Homebrew's bin. This means that system-
provided programs will be used before Homebrew-provided ones. This is an
issue if you install, for instance, Python.

Consider editing your .bashrc to put:
/usr/local/bin
ahead of /usr/bin in your $PATH.

Some brews install binaries to sbin instead of bin, but Homebrew's
sbin was not found in your path.

Consider editing your .bashrc to add:
/usr/local/sbin
to $PATH.

Some "config" scripts were found in your path, but not in system or Homebrew folders.

./configure scripts often look for *-config scripts to determine if software packages
are installed, and what additional flags to use when compiling and linking.

Having additional scripts in your path can confuse software installed via Homebrew if
the config script overrides a system or Homebrew provided script of the same name.

/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin
python-config python2.7-config
/usr/local/MacGPG2/bin
gpg-error-config ksba-config libassuan-config libgcrypt-config libusb-config pth-config

---

Well, yes, i have installed the MacGPG bundle, but i am sure, i am not the only one here.

[adamv]

You'll need to chown /usr/local/share/locale/* back from root, at the very least, then rebrew glib

[simonszu]

chown to whom? Myself? chown -R?

[adamv]

My /usr/local/share is owned by "adamv:staff", so I would do:

chown -R adamv:staff /usr/local/share/*

but substituting in your own username.

The MacGPG package installer puts libs in /usr/local and chowns things to root; this interferes with configure/make/make install of lots of software (not just through Homebrew), so we put in a "brew doctor" warning about it.

You'll probably also want to put "/usr/local/bin" ahead of "/usr/bin" in your path, unless you have a specific reason not to.

[ghost]

My alias fixbrew:

$ sudo chown -R $USER /usr/local

That should solve some basic permission issue :)