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/ginstall -c
-m 644 'man/unlink.1' '/usr/local/Cellar/coreutils/8.27/share/man/man1/gunlink.1' src/ginstall -c src/uniq '/usr/local/Cellar/coreutils/8.27/bin/./guniq' src/ginstall -c -m 644 'man/vdir.1' '/usr/local/Cellar/coreutils/8.27/share/man/man1/gvdir.1' src/ginstall -c src/unlink '/usr/local/Cellar/coreutils/8.27/bin/./gunlink' src/ginstall -c src/vdir '/usr/local/Cellar/coreutils/8.27/bin/./gvdir' src/ginstall
-c -m 644 'man/wc.1' '/usr/local/Cellar/coreutils/8.27/share/man/man1/gwc.1' src/ginstall
-c -m 644 'man/whoami.1' '/usr/local/Cellar/coreutils/8.27/share/man/man1/gwhoami.1' src/ginstall -c src/wc '/usr/local/Cellar/coreutils/8.27/bin/./gwc' src/ginstall -c -m 644 'man/yes.1' '/usr/local/Cellar/coreutils/8.27/share/man/man1/gyes.1' src/ginstall -c src/whoami '/usr/local/Cellar/coreutils/8.27/bin/./gwhoami' src/ginstall -c src/yes '/usr/local/Cellar/coreutils/8.27/bin/./gyes' src/ginstall
-c src/ginstall '/usr/local/Cellar/coreutils/8.27/bin' make[2]: *** [install-am] Error 2 make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 make:
*** [install] Error 2
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Error: You are using macOS 10.9. We (and Apple) do not provide support for this old version. You may encounter build failures or other breakages. Please create pull-requests instead of filing issues.
As stated in Clemens’ answer, Homebrew doesn’t support macOS 10.9. You can either:
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