brew install coreutils failing 10.9.5 OSX

Question

It has been 2 days that I have failed to install coreutils.

Last 15 lines from /Users/Mehdi/Library/Logs/Homebrew/coreutils/03.make:

src/ginsta         


        

Answer 1

As stated in Clemens’ answer, Homebrew doesn’t support macOS 10.9. You can either:

• Try TigerBrew, a fork of Homebrew for old macOS versions

• Install coreutils from source, with something like the following:

  wget https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/coreutils/coreutils-8.25.tar.xz
  tar xJf coreutils-8.25.tar.xz
  cd coreutils-8.25/
  ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
  make
  sudo make install