OSX packages on git-scm.com broken on previous OSX versions?

From: Dan Ackroyd <danack@basereality.com>
Date: Jul 21, 2014, 12:08 UTC
Message-ID: <CA+kxMuQLUJ+sohiSGaDpz7U-fiAwaYbe5wv7XnG7UCj=tw6uyA@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

Apologies in advance if this is the wrong place, but it looks like the OSX packages available from http://git-scm.com/download/mac are not working for at least some people including myself.

What I'm seeing is that any call to invoke git gives an illegal instruction, crash report is below.

The other people are listed at: http://sourceforge.net/p/git-osx-installer/tickets/97/

Apparently this may be a problem caused by the lack of the compile flag "-mmacosx-version-min=10.5" according to:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14268887/what-is-the-illegal-instruction-4-error-and-why-does-mmacosx-version-min-10

Any chance this can be investigated and fixed please?

cheers Dan Ackroyd

btw I'm on OSX 10.6.8 but the other reports are on more up to date versions.

Process:         bash [90170]
Path:            /bin/bash
Identifier:      bash
Version:         ??? (???)
Code Type:       X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process:  bash [89840]

Date/Time: 2014-07-21 12:34:59.093 +0100 OS Version: Mac OS X 10.6.8 (10K549) Report Version: 6

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGILL) Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0xfffffffffffffff8 Crashed Thread: Unknown

Backtrace not available

Unknown thread crashed with X86 Thread State (64-bit):
  rax: 0x0000000000000055  rbx: 0x0000000000000000  rcx:
0x0000000000000000  rdx: 0x0000000000000000
  rdi: 0x0000000000000000  rsi: 0x0000000000000000  rbp:
0x0000000000000000  rsp: 0x0000000000000000
   r8: 0x0000000000000000   r9: 0x0000000000000000  r10:
0x0000000000000000  r11: 0x0000000000000000
  r12: 0x0000000000000000  r13: 0x0000000000000000  r14:
0x0000000000000000  r15: 0x0000000000000000
  rip: 0x00007fff5fc01028  rfl: 0x0000000000010203  cr2: 0xfffffffffffffff8

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