npm install Fails on OSX 10.9.4

[nasser]

Something about libtool seems to be throwing it. It says -static is an unrecognized option, but that doesn't make sense to me. I have Homebrew, and installed libtool through it at some point, but trying to brew unlink or brew uninstall doesn't seem to help.

$ npm install oniguruma
/
> [email protected] install /Users/nasser/Scratch/wtf/node_modules/oniguruma
> node-gyp rebuild

  CC(target) Release/obj.target/oniguruma/deps/onig/regcomp.o
  CC(target) Release/obj.target/oniguruma/deps/onig/regenc.o
  CC(target) Release/obj.target/oniguruma/deps/onig/regerror.o
  CC(target) Release/obj.target/oniguruma/deps/onig/regexec.o
  CC(target) Release/obj.target/oniguruma/deps/onig/regext.o
  CC(target) Release/obj.target/oniguruma/deps/onig/reggnu.o
  CC(target) Release/obj.target/oniguruma/deps/onig/regparse.o
  CC(target) Release/obj.target/oniguruma/deps/onig/regposerr.o
  CC(target) Release/obj.target/oniguruma/deps/onig/regposix.o
  CC(target) Release/obj.target/oniguruma/deps/onig/regsyntax.o
  CC(target) Release/obj.target/oniguruma/deps/onig/regtrav.o
  CC(target) Release/obj.target/oniguruma/deps/onig/regversion.o
  CC(target) Release/obj.target/oniguruma/deps/onig/st.o
  CC(target) Release/obj.target/oniguruma/deps/onig/enc/ascii.o
  CC(target) Release/obj.target/oniguruma/deps/onig/enc/big5.o
  CC(target) Release/obj.target/oniguruma/deps/onig/enc/cp1251.o
  CC(target) Release/obj.target/oniguruma/deps/onig/enc/euc_jp.o
  CC(target) Release/obj.target/oniguruma/deps/onig/enc/euc_kr.o
  CC(target) Release/obj.target/oniguruma/deps/onig/enc/euc_tw.o
  CC(target) Release/obj.target/oniguruma/deps/onig/enc/gb18030.o
  CC(target) Release/obj.target/oniguruma/deps/onig/enc/iso8859_1.o
  CC(target) Release/obj.target/oniguruma/deps/onig/enc/iso8859_2.o
  CC(target) Release/obj.target/oniguruma/deps/onig/enc/iso8859_3.o
  CC(target) Release/obj.target/oniguruma/deps/onig/enc/iso8859_4.o
  CC(target) Release/obj.target/oniguruma/deps/onig/enc/iso8859_5.o
  CC(target) Release/obj.target/oniguruma/deps/onig/enc/iso8859_6.o
  CC(target) Release/obj.target/oniguruma/deps/onig/enc/iso8859_7.o
  CC(target) Release/obj.target/oniguruma/deps/onig/enc/iso8859_8.o
  CC(target) Release/obj.target/oniguruma/deps/onig/enc/iso8859_9.o
  CC(target) Release/obj.target/oniguruma/deps/onig/enc/iso8859_10.o
  CC(target) Release/obj.target/oniguruma/deps/onig/enc/iso8859_11.o
  CC(target) Release/obj.target/oniguruma/deps/onig/enc/iso8859_13.o
  CC(target) Release/obj.target/oniguruma/deps/onig/enc/iso8859_14.o
  CC(target) Release/obj.target/oniguruma/deps/onig/enc/iso8859_15.o
  CC(target) Release/obj.target/oniguruma/deps/onig/enc/iso8859_16.o
  CC(target) Release/obj.target/oniguruma/deps/onig/enc/koi8.o
  CC(target) Release/obj.target/oniguruma/deps/onig/enc/koi8_r.o
  CC(target) Release/obj.target/oniguruma/deps/onig/enc/mktable.o
  CC(target) Release/obj.target/oniguruma/deps/onig/enc/sjis.o
  CC(target) Release/obj.target/oniguruma/deps/onig/enc/unicode.o
  CC(target) Release/obj.target/oniguruma/deps/onig/enc/utf16_be.o
  CC(target) Release/obj.target/oniguruma/deps/onig/enc/utf16_le.o
  CC(target) Release/obj.target/oniguruma/deps/onig/enc/utf32_be.o
  CC(target) Release/obj.target/oniguruma/deps/onig/enc/utf32_le.o
  CC(target) Release/obj.target/oniguruma/deps/onig/enc/utf8.o
  LIBTOOL-STATIC Release/oniguruma.a
libtool: unrecognized option `-static'
libtool: Try `libtool --help' for more information.
make: *** [Release/oniguruma.a] Error 1
gyp ERR! build error
gyp ERR! stack Error: `make` failed with exit code: 2
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onExit (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/build.js:267:23)
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:98:17)
gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:809:12)
gyp ERR! System Darwin 13.3.0
gyp ERR! command "node" "/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd /Users/nasser/Scratch/wtf/node_modules/oniguruma
gyp ERR! node -v v0.10.29
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v0.13.1
gyp ERR! not ok
npm ERR! [email protected] install: `node-gyp rebuild`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] install script.
npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the oniguruma package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR!     node-gyp rebuild
npm ERR! You can get their info via:
npm ERR!     npm owner ls oniguruma
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! System Darwin 13.3.0
npm ERR! command "node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install" "oniguruma"
npm ERR! cwd /Users/nasser/Scratch/wtf
npm ERR! node -v v0.10.29
npm ERR! npm -v 1.5.0-alpha-2
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! Error: ENOENT, open 'npm-debug.log'
npm ERR! If you need help, you may report this *entire* log,
npm ERR! including the npm and node versions, at:
npm ERR!     <http:https://github.com/npm/npm/issues>

npm ERR! System Darwin 13.3.0
npm ERR! command "node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install" "oniguruma"
npm ERR! cwd /Users/nasser/Scratch/wtf
npm ERR! node -v v0.10.29
npm ERR! npm -v 1.5.0-alpha-2
npm ERR! path npm-debug.log
npm ERR! code ENOENT
npm ERR! errno 34
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR!     /Users/nasser/Scratch/wtf/npm-debug.log
npm ERR! not ok code 0

[kevinsawicki]

libtool: unrecognized option `-static'
libtool: Try `libtool --help' for more information.
make: *** [Release/oniguruma.a] Error 1
gyp ERR! build error

This looks like an issue regarding the version of libtool installed on your machine.

Looks like there are some tips here: Homebrew/legacy-homebrew#28442 (comment)

You may want to report this to the npm project or node-gyp project if you are still experiencing it, this library uses those tools for building the native code.