Git building is borked

From: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>
Date: Mar 8, 2007, 10:21 UTC
Message-ID: <4BBB354C-B000-4EF7-B3FF-7B2A4D6DE538@cam.ac.uk>

Hi,

I am trying to build git on my Mac Book Pro running OSX Tiger 10.4.8 and I have run into a problem...

[snip lots of successful output]
make -C git-gui all
GITGUI_VERSION = 0.6.GITGUI
     GEN CREDITS-FILE
error: Cannot locate authorship information.
make[1]: *** [CREDITS-FILE] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2

Looking at the CREDITS-GEN script it runs git for all sorts of evil purposes thus it appears that in order to build and install git one has to already got installed git!

That seems terminally flawed/broken to me...

So how do I get git installed in the first place on my OSX box?!?

Best regards,

	Anton

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Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @)
Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK
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