Re: git mac 10.7.x

From: Kyle J. McKay <mackyle@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 20, 2015, 22:54 UTC
Message-ID: <004039F7-C541-429F-B15C-13865427834E@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <0596CAEE-2F31-4D61-A3A8-9C8AF2A287C6@gmail.com>

On Feb 20, 2015, at 12:01, sojourner wrote:

> What's the difference between this installer and the other one? Why  
> is this installer going to work?

See the website for a description. It was built to work with 10.4.8 or later. It was built using Apple's older GCC specifically to be compatible so does not contain any "illegal instructions" that only work on 10.8.x or later. Besides, I've actually run it on the older systems without problem so I'm pretty confident you won't have an issue with it.

-Kyle

Show 17 quoted lines

> On 20 Feb 2015, at 13:32, Kyle J. McKay wrote:
>
>> On Feb 20, 2015, at 02:38, sojourner wrote:
>>> Installed Git via installer. Updated path in .bash_profile. Get  
>>> error Illegal instruction: 4 when trying to run Git.
>>>
>>> Built Git from source. Searches for the compiled source  
>>> unsuccessful. Which is nice: there's nothing to uninstall.
>>>
>>> Searching online has a lot of suggestions and ideas. Anybody have  
>>> anything that actually works?--
>>
>> You can get a working installer from <http://mackyle.github.io/git-osx-installer/ 
>> > that should work for you on 10.7.x just fine.
>>
>> -Kyle
>