Saturday, September 26, 2009

my notes on building git on OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

Hello!

Looking at the Omni frameworks I realized I would need the git source control package.

Dan Benjamin's HiveLogic article on building git on Snow Leopard explains the steps in detail.
What I am going to talk about are the road bumps I ran into.

After getting the git source, download:
asciidoc
xmlto
getopt
packages.

Alright, time to turn to MacPorts 1.8.0 to resolve all these dependencies. Except xmlto (bug#) hung up the works in MacPorts. Thanks to lightning fast response from MacPorts I found I needed to upgrade libxml2 to 2.7.5 thus:

sudo port install libxml2

After that xmlto installs fine as does git. Hope that helps. Cheers.

More links:
asciidoc
http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/INSTALL.html#X1
http://sourceforge.net/projects/asciidoc/

xmlto
http://directory.fsf.org/project/xmlto/

getopt
http://huizen.dds.nl/~frodol/getopt.html
http://software.frodo.looijaard.name/getopt/download.php

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