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Build script error in MacOS El Capitan

See original GitHub issue

Expected behavior

The build script (npm build:dev) should run without errors.

Actual behavior

The build script does not finish successfully due to the following error.

readlink: illegal option -- f
usage: readlink [-n] [file ...]
./scripts/build: line 24: ./../node_modules/.bin/browserify: No such file or directory

Steps to reproduce behavior

Clone the repo. Run npm install Run the build script using MacOS El Capitan’s bash shell. npm run build:dev

Are there any prerequisites I need to install?

Issue Analytics

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Created 7 years ago
Comments:9 (2 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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marshallswaincommented, Jul 18, 2016

Cool. That looks like a more elegant solution. Thanks!

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yoshuawuytscommented, Jul 18, 2016

I updated to El Capitan a couple of days ago. If you add this to your shell rc you should be good to go ✨:

# override built-in coreutils
export PATH="$(brew --prefix coreutils)/libexec/gnubin:$PATH"
export PATH="$(brew --prefix gnu-tar)/libexec/gnubin:$PATH"
export PATH="$(brew --prefix curl)/bin:$PATH"

# link man pages to new coreutils
export MANPATH="$(brew --prefix coreutils)/libexec/gnuman:$MANPATH"
export PATH="$(brew --prefix gnu-tar)/libexec/gnuman:$PATH"
export MANPATH="$(brew --prefix gnu-sed)/share/man:$MANPATH"

I reckon if anyone stumbled up on this they should be able to resolve it. Not a hard issue as it’s mostly just build tooling but yeah