Openssl installation using HomeBrew fails giving a make error

Question

I am using HomeBrew as a package manager. The operating system that I am using is Mountain Lion. I just tried to install openssl using the command : brew install openssl What I am getting is the following error :

==> Downloading http://openssl.org/source/openssl-1.0.1c.tar.gz
Already downloaded: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/openssl-1.0.1c.tar.gz
==> perl ./Configure --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/openssl/1.0.1c --openssldir=/usr/local/etc/openssl zlib-dynamic shared d
==> make
==> make test
==> make install MANDIR=/usr/local/Cellar/openssl/1.0.1c/share/man MANSUFFIX=ssl
created directory `/usr/local/Cellar/openssl/1.0.1c/lib/engines'
created directory `/usr/local/Cellar/openssl/1.0.1c/lib/pkgconfig'
created directory `/usr/local/Cellar/openssl/1.0.1c/include'
created directory `/usr/local/Cellar/openssl/1.0.1c/include/openssl'
make: *** [install_sw] Error 13

Error: openssl did not build
Logs: /Users/Administrator/Library/Logs/Homebrew/openssl/

Any ideas on how to overcome this? Thank you.

Answer 1

I had this error on my Mac 10.8.4

brew install openssl

created directory `/usr/local/Cellar/openssl/1.0.1e/include/openssl' make: *** [install_sw] Error 13

Follow these steps to resolve it :

1. Create a directory if it's not exist

   sudo mkdir /usr/local/etc/openssl

2. Change the rights. Replace and with your name and group (e.g. serge:admin)

   sudo chown -R <username>:<group> /usr/local/etc/openssl/

3. Repeat openssl installation

   brew install openssl

4. Install curl-ca-bundle

   brew install curl-ca-bundle

Answer 2

This is likely a user write permissions error, but checking the log will verify.

See gist for more details: https://gist.github.com/devinbrown/5084433