Numpy Install RuntimeError: Broken toolchain: cannot link a simple C program

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(macbook air)

I spent a while trying to install this. First off, I can\'t use Homebrew because I installed it but then the \'network connection\' dropped and now my

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I'm having this same problem (only I'm using brew install numpy), with:

File "numpy/core/setup.py", line 686, in get_mathlib_info
    raise RuntimeError("Broken toolchain: cannot link a simple C program")
RuntimeError: Broken toolchain: cannot link a simple C program

(Here is a full gist-log of my error.)

This question has some potential solutions: Problems with pip install numpy - RuntimeError: Broken toolchain: cannot link a simple C program.

Though I don't want to resort to sudo, and I want to stick with homebrew (because I'm really aiming for a homebrewed opencv), so I've had no luck so far.

Edit: adding export ARCHFLAGS=-Wno-error=unused-command-line-argument-hard-error-in-future to my .bash_profile (as was suggested in the other question I linked) let brew install numpy almost flawlessly. All that remained after was that I had to brew link --overwrite numpy (because I had a non-brew installation of numpy before). Seems to be working now.