homebrew

How do you update your "HOMEBREW_TEMP" environmental variable?

I'm getting the following error when running "brew doctor":

Error: Your Cellar and TEMP directories are on different volumes.
OS X won't move relative symlinks across volumes unless the target file already
exists. Brews known to be affected by this are Git and Narwhal.

You should set the "HOMEBREW_TEMP" environmental variable to a suitable
directory on the same volume as your Cellar

How do I set this variable? And what should I set it to? I can't seem to find anything about this when googling.

Solution

  • For anyone that runs into this in the future, try restarting your computer and then running brew doctor again. That fixed it for me.