brew install gettext, should i force link it?

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ACCEPTED ANSWER

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same problem here, just run

brew link gettext --force

and

manage.py compilemessages

and everything working fine. you can always

brew unlink gettext

if you have problems and revert back to previous state

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I tried running this brew link gettext --force, but I was getting:

$ brew install gettext
Warning: gettext 0.20.2 is already installed and up-to-date
To reinstall 0.20.2, run `brew reinstall gettext`

$ brew link gettext --force
Warning: Refusing to link macOS provided/shadowed software: gettext
If you need to have gettext first in your PATH run:
  echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/gettext/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile

For compilers to find gettext you may need to set:
  export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/opt/gettext/lib"
  export CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include"

Then, I just added it to the system path with:

echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/gettext/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile