Terminal brew issue installing fontforge

[kiwitotoro]

Hello, I am trying to install font forge. I found this explanation : http://joewong.blogspot.com.au/2011/11/how-to-install-fontforge-on-mac-os-x.html I went through the instructions but got stuck on the part afte "brew install cairo --use-clang" where I actually install fontforge "brew install fontforge --use-gcc" I get the following error:


==> Installing fontforge dependency: gettext
Error: GCC could not be found

I also got the warning that I have macports or fink installed ( I think I installed macports to get gimp) I looked through the code and found this line back when I installed brew:

Warning: The following *evil* dylibs exist in /usr/local/lib
They may break builds or worse. You should consider deleting them:
/usr/local/lib/libssl.0.9.8.dylib


Question 1: what is libssl, how did it get in my computer and why should I delete it? (ok, question 1a, 1b and 1c...)

Question 2: How do I remove it?

I am a terminal beginner, I went through the tutorial here:
http://guides.macrumors.com/Terminal

I could not find the /usr/local/libpath and putting libssl in spotlight I found libssl.1.0.0.dylib in /opt/local/lib/ so is it a hidden file?


Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

 

[stomer]

Sounds like gcc isn't installed. If you don't already have Xcode installed you should install it. Xcode installs gcc and other bits required for compilation.

I would only delete dylibs if you are 100% sure of what you're doing.

 

[kiwitotoro]

Thanks for the advice

Sounds like gcc isn't installed. If you don't already have Xcode installed you should install it.

Hi Stomer,

Thanks for the reply. I have xcode installed but it was 4.2 and 4.3 is available so I'm updating then we will see if that fixes it although checked the gcc version "gcc --V" and got "i686-apple-darwin11-llvm-gcc-4.2: no input files"

will report back when update is complete.

 

[kiwitotoro]

Didn't work

Looks like the xcode upgrade did not work.


terminaloutput:

:~ me$ brew install fontforge --use-gcc
Warning: It appears you have MacPorts or Fink installed.
Software installed with other package managers causes known problems for
Homebrew. If a formula fails to build, uninstall MacPorts/Fink and try again.
==> Installing fontforge dependency: gettext
Error: GCC could not be found
:~ me$ gcc --V
i686-apple-darwin11-llvm-gcc-4.2: no input files
:~ me$

So it looks (to me) like I have gcc but it dose not work. so would uninstalling macports and/or fink help? Or should I install gcc again and if so where would I do this from?

Thanks again