Why is node-gyp rebuild failing on Mac OSX El Capitan

Question

I recently bought a mac, which uses Mac OSX El Capitan v10.11.4. Installed node with homebrew, and am using node v6.2.2 and npm v3.9.5. I\'m getting an error with bcrypt dur

Answer 1

Try looking at your python install.

I found a hint at the discussion here https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp/issues/489#issuecomment-431447692.

My python on my MacBook Pro is managed by Homebrew which installs binaries to

/usr/local/bin

So I did the following in terminal:

>$: npm config set python /usr/local/bin/python
>$: rm -rf node_modules
>$: npm i