brew install gcc too time consuming

I'm doing a clean install of Mavericks, and accidentally did

brew install gcc

which is taking over half an hour, maybe more. Should I terminate it? I know now that I should have installed a specific gcc (maybe gcc48) but it's too late and my macbook air is breathing hard.

Currently done downloading all 5 dependencies, but stuck on the "Installing gcc" part. It's downloaded a gcc-4.9.1.tar.bz2, configured and built it, and is stuck on making the bootstrap.

Any advice is appreciated.

This was good advice I saw too late: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/38222/how-do-i-install-gcc-via-homebrew

Asked here first: https://superuser.com/questions/788256/brew-install-gcc-mac-os-10-9-mavericks

You do need gcc installed to get gfortran, and you do need a fortran compiler for scipy. Homebrew will install a "bottled" (i.e., precompiled) version of the gcc package, which is very fast, if you have the Xcode Command Line Tools installed. These are separate from XCode proper. You can install them with xcode-select --install.

There is no particular need to install a particular version of gcc (and I think those may not be bottled, so they will be equally slow).

In general, interrupting Homebrew with Ctrl+C is safe and Homebrew will automatically recover.

You may be interested in the homebrew-python tap.

Try this to force the bottle (pre-compiled) installation

brew install gcc --force-bottle

patience a one-word answer... Launch this thing overnight, or budget the time.
Just ran an update on 10.20_4 for a ... 322 minutes wait. That's about 5.5 hours.

Oh, and disk space on your system partition needs > 10GB free.

🍺  /usr/local/Cellar/gcc/10.2.0_4: 1,467 files, 331.8MB, built in 130 minutes 33 seconds
🍺  /usr/local/Cellar/openblas/0.3.15: 23 files, 120.3MB, built in 19 minutes 28 seconds
🍺  /usr/local/Cellar/hdf5/1.12.0_3: 268 files, 16.4MB, built in 5 minutes 5 seconds
🍺  /usr/local/Cellar/netcdf/4.8.0: 95 files, 6.5MB, built in 5 minutes 54 seconds
🍺  /usr/local/Cellar/cython/0.29.23: 440 files, 8.9MB, built in 1 minute 2 seconds
🍺  /usr/local/Cellar/numpy/1.20.2: 1,005 files, 24.3MB, built in 2 minutes 15 seconds
🍺  /usr/local/Cellar/doxygen/1.9.1: 9 files, 15.5MB, built in 1 minute 54 seconds
🍺  /usr/local/Cellar/little-cms2/2.12: 21 files, 1MB, built in 27 seconds
🍺  /usr/local/Cellar/openjpeg/2.4.0: 522 files, 13.1MB, built in 25 seconds
🍺  /usr/local/Cellar/nspr/4.30: 86 files, 1.1MB, built in 24 seconds
🍺  /usr/local/Cellar/nss/3.64: 224 files, 42.4MB, built in 16 minutes 14 seconds
🍺  /usr/local/Cellar/qt@5/5.15.2: 10,384 files, 190.2MB, built in 64 minutes 4 seconds
🍺  /usr/local/Cellar/poppler/21.05.0: 476 files, 26MB, built in 3 minutes 55 seconds
🍺  /usr/local/Cellar/unixodbc/2.3.9_1: 44 files, 1.9MB, built in 1 minute 16 seconds
🍺  /usr/local/Cellar/webp/1.2.0: 39 files, 2.2MB, built in 41 seconds
🍺  /usr/local/Cellar/zstd/1.4.9_1: 31 files, 2.6MB, built in 31 seconds
🍺  /usr/local/Cellar/gdal/3.2.2_4: 329 files, 59.7MB, built in 17 minutes 26 seconds