brew install postgresql fails on Mac OS X Lion (10.7.4) with XCode 4.3.3

Question

I'm running into an error while installing postgresql 9.1.4 with homebrew. I've tried everything I can think of to work around the problem including....

• running brew install --use-gcc postgresql
• running brew install --use-clang postgresql
• running brew install --use-llvm postgresql
• running CC=/usr/bin/gcc-4.2 brew install postgresql
• running export CC=/usr/bin/gcc-4.2 && brew install postgresql
• running brew install postgresql --32-bit
• running brew install postgresql --without-ossp-uuid
• running brew install postgresql --no-python
• running PYTHON=/usr/local/bin/python brew install postgresql

I've noticed that postgreqsl 9.0.4 is already installed on the system, but many of the commands that I'd expect to be there are missing, such as initdb and pg_ctl, so I don't want to use that version.

I suspect that the issue I'm encountering is caused by libraries from the system version of postgresql are being linked against, but I'm not sure how to test this.

Any thoughts? I posted the verbose output of running brew install postgresql in a gist. https://gist.github.com/2998598

Answer 1

Looks like this is now a known issue and is fixed by applying a Homebrew patch.