Re: Is support for 10.8 dropped?

From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date: Apr 5, 2018, 21:46 UTC
Message-ID: <CAPig+cR19LS2vfjBQ71c3j2g61vSHnYRj1iSX1-V_E3Fj=kwOA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CA+FnnTxbg97A4P3AP7n5RT8+=W8PY0yx3644Ay2Zi9xgKD2aoA@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 3:48 PM, Igor Korot <ikorot01@gmail.com> wrote:

> Is support for 10.8 dropped?

Until about a year ago, I was still periodically building Git from source on MacOS 10.5, and there hasn't been any outright effort to drop support for older MacOS, so I expect that 10.8 is still supported by the Git project itself.

However, whether various packagers of (pre-built) Git support 10.8 is a different matter.

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> dyld: lazy symbol binding failed: Symbol not found: ___strlcpy_chk
>   Referenced from: /usr/local/git/libexec/git-core/git
>   Expected in: /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
> dyld: Symbol not found: ___strlcpy_chk
>   Referenced from: /usr/local/git/libexec/git-core/git
>   Expected in: /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
>
> Now my question is - how I can upgrade the git console client for my
> OSX version?
> It looks like all installers are written for 10.9+ and the only way to
> work it is to update the OS?
>
> Is there a version of the git console app for OSX 10.8?

It's not clear what installer you used? Was it the package from git-scm? Was it from Homebrew?

I would guess that, even if the git-scm installer no longer supports 10.8, it is likely that Homebrew does. Have you tried it?

If both those options fail, you can always build from source.