Can not postinstall gcc

[cang-mang]

Additional Info

• I am using Windows Subsystem for Linux

Output of brew config

HOMEBREW_VERSION: 4.0.16
ORIGIN: https://mirrors.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/git/homebrew/brew.git
HEAD: 01e0c20d01c6aab28d844280d130f0e745e2ddd9
Last commit: 5 days ago
Core tap JSON: 05 May 09:45 UTC
HOMEBREW_PREFIX: /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew
HOMEBREW_API_DOMAIN: https://mirrors.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/homebrew-bottles/api
HOMEBREW_BOTTLE_DOMAIN: https://mirrors.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/homebrew-bottles
HOMEBREW_BREW_GIT_REMOTE: https://mirrors.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/git/homebrew/brew.git
HOMEBREW_CASK_OPTS: []
HOMEBREW_CORE_GIT_REMOTE: https://mirrors.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/git/homebrew/homebrew-core.git
HOMEBREW_EDITOR: vim
HOMEBREW_FORCE_BREWED_CA_CERTIFICATES: set
HOMEBREW_FORCE_BREWED_CURL: set
HOMEBREW_FORCE_BREWED_GIT: set
HOMEBREW_MAKE_JOBS: 4
HOMEBREW_PIP_INDEX_URL: https://pypi.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/simple
Homebrew Ruby: 2.6.10 => /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/vendor/portable-ruby/2.6.10_1/bin/ruby
CPU: quad-core 64-bit skylake
Clang: 16.0.3
Git: 2.40.1 => /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/opt/git/bin/git
Curl: 8.0.1 => /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/opt/curl/bin/curl
Kernel: Linux 4.19.91-013.x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
OS: Alibaba Group Enterprise Linux Server release 7.2 (Paladin) (Paladin)
Host glibc: 2.17
/usr/bin/gcc: 4.8.5
/usr/bin/ruby: N/A
glibc: N/A
gcc@11: N/A
gcc: N/A
xorg: N/A

Output of brew doctor

Your system is ready to brew.

Description of issue

Today I run brew upgrade and it says:

Warning: The post-install step did not complete successfully
You can try again using:
  brew postinstall gcc

But when I run brew postinstall --debug gcc, it still fails:

==> Postinstalling gcc
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/brew.rb (Formulary::FromPathLoader): loading /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/opt/gcc/.brew/gcc.rb
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/brew.rb (Formulary::FromPathLoader): loading /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core/Formula/gcc.rb
Warning: The post-install step did not complete successfully
You can try again using:
  brew postinstall gcc
==> An exception occurred within a child process:
  ErrorDuringExecution: Failure while executing; `/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/gcc/13.1.0/bin/gcc-13 -print-libgcc-file-name` was terminated by uncaught signal SEGV. Here's the output:


/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/utils/popen.rb:12:in `popen_read'
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/utils/popen.rb:16:in `safe_popen_read'
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/opt/gcc/.brew/gcc.rb:151:in `post_install'
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/formula.rb:1170:in `block (2 levels) in run_post_install'
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/formula.rb:978:in `with_logging'
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/formula.rb:1169:in `block in run_post_install'
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/extend/kernel.rb:498:in `with_env'
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/formula.rb:1158:in `run_post_install'
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/postinstall.rb:24:in `<main>'

[carlocab]

I think this is the patchelf bug. See Homebrew/homebrew-core#126054. There should be a workaround there too.

[cang-mang]

I completely delete the Homebrew, and install it again. Then it will not install gcc@11, but still says:

==> Pouring gcc-13.1.0.x86_64_linux.bottle.tar.gz
Warning: The post-install step did not complete successfully
You can try again using:
  brew postinstall gcc

And running gcc-13 always causes crash:

$gcc-13
Segmentation fault

$gcc-13 --version
Segmentation fault

[carlocab]

Yes, reinstalling Homebrew won't help. Please read Homebrew/homebrew-core#126054.

[cang-mang]

But I have no patchelf installed:

$brew list
bdw-gc		 elfutils  gmp	    libffi	libtool		    lz4		 openssl@3    rust	  zlib
berkeley-db	 expat	   gperf    libidn2	libunistring	    m4		 pcre2	      six	  zstd
berkeley-db@5	 gcc	   guile    libmpc	libxcrypt	    mingw-w64	 perl	      sqlite
binutils	 gdb	   hexyl    libnghttp2	libxml2		    mpdecimal	 pkg-config   unzip
brotli		 gdbm	   icu4c    libnsl	libyaml		    mpfr	 python@3.11  util-linux
bzip2		 gettext   isl	    libsodium	linux-headers@5.15  ncurses	 readline     vim
ca-certificates  git	   krb5     libssh2	llvm		    openldap	 rtmpdump     xz
curl		 glibc	   libedit  libtirpc	lua		    openssl@1.1  ruby	      z3

[ZhongRuoyu]

brew does not use the patchelf formula. It uses patchelf.rb.

The workaround is mentioned here: Homebrew/homebrew-core#126054 (comment)

[cang-mang]

I delete the whole Homebrew, and newly install the Homebrew from the very beginning.
But at the step "installing gcc", it still fails to postinstall:

==> Installing curl dependency: gcc
==> Pouring gcc-13.1.0.x86_64_linux.bottle.tar.gz
Warning: The post-install step did not complete successfully
You can try again using:
  brew postinstall gcc
==> An exception occurred within a child process:
  ErrorDuringExecution: Failure while executing; `/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/gcc/13.1.0/bin/gcc-13 -print-libgcc-file-name` was terminated by uncaught signal SEGV. Here's the output:


/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/utils/popen.rb:12:in `popen_read'
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/utils/popen.rb:16:in `safe_popen_read'
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/opt/gcc/.brew/gcc.rb:151:in `post_install'
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/formula.rb:1170:in `block (2 levels) in run_post_install'
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/formula.rb:978:in `with_logging'
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/formula.rb:1169:in `block in run_post_install'
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/extend/kernel.rb:498:in `with_env'
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/formula.rb:1158:in `run_post_install'
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/postinstall.rb:24:in `<main>'

[osalbahr]

Are you able to still use gcc-13 regardless?

[cang-mang]

No, I can not. The gcc-13 directly crashes when I run it.

[osalbahr]

Could you paste the output of:

1. brew postinstall gcc --verbose
2. brew postinstall gcc --verbose --debug
3. /usr/bin/cc --version

I can replicate an issue with brew postinstall gcc that happens because the postinstall needs a c compiler from the first place. But your error seems different. I hope the output of the 3 commands above helps me reproduce the error in a podman container so I can more easily tweak around and boil down the issue.

I don’t know if the patchelf bug is still relevant or was fixed.

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Does your system satisfy all the requirements in this page? https://docs.brew.sh/Homebrew-on-Linux

I’d try running the yum commands if you haven’t already.