On 8 January 2013 10:48, ishi soichi wrote: > /usr/local/var/run It looks like your homebrew prefix is correct, so I am guessing you are missing some of the subsidiary directories. Can you re-try after `mkdir -p /usr/local/var/{lib,log,run} /usr/local/etc` ? If it still fails, run `brew install -v couchdb` and post the output to a pastie / friendpaste service. I'm not sure if our recipes or our configure scripts need to handle this case correctly. Any thoughts? A+ Dave