Compiling Git for Mac OS X Leopard (10.5)

Justin Reagor — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 23:48:00 -0400

The following is the exact compilation steps I took for compiling Git onto the new retail version of Leopard. Definitely a big change since my previous article on installing in Tiger (next to pre-installed SVN, bye bye CVS!)...

Commands

curl -O http://surfnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/expat/expat-2.0.1.tar.gz
tar zxvf expat-2.0.1.tar.gz 
cd expat-2.0.1
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
make check
sudo make install
cd ..

curl -O http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-1.5.3.4.tar.bz2
tar jxvf git-1.5.3.4.tar.bz2
cd git-1.5.3.4
make prefix=/usr/local all
make prefix=/usr/local test && echo $?
sudo make prefix=/usr/local install
cd ..

curl -O http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-manpages-1.5.3.4.tar.bz2
sudo tar xjv -C /usr/local/man -f git-manpages-1.5.3.4.tar.bz2

Notes

You may need to adjust your default MANPATH environment variable. You can either apply something along the lines of…

export MANPATH="/usr/local/man:$MANPATH"

...to your .bash_login, profile or what have you. Or you can look into editing /private/etc/man.conf (or un-tar the manpages into a directory in your MANPATH already).

Also, no need to fiddle around with SVN bindings for Perl, or whatever the problem was with git-svn before.

You may also wish to surf our past articles hear on this blog for upgrading Git. The upgrading should be identical on Leopard.

Next Time

My next article will cover developing outside of a traditional distributed Git environment. Using Git to manage personal branching/merging/local copies, then committing to a main SVN repo. Happy hacking.

"Compiling Git for Mac OS X Leopard (10.5)" by Justin

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 11:52:33 -0400

Oh my god.... not again!

"Compiling Git for Mac OS X Leopard (10.5)" by Colin

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 20:58:02 -0400

Okay, I have it installed. Now what? What is it and how do I use it? =)

has_many :thoughts: Compiling Git for Mac OS X Leopard (10.5)

Compiling Git for Mac OS X Leopard (10.5)

"Compiling Git for Mac OS X Leopard (10.5)" by Justin

"Compiling Git for Mac OS X Leopard (10.5)" by Colin