After upgrading to snow leopard it turn out that i am unable to use gcc on terminal anymore, and its mainly because it has lose its link in /usr/bin/.
What should i do to make it work again?
[After installing Xcode 3.2, everything went to normal, terminal was accepting gcc command, but i have to shutdown once, because netbeans was not working properly, so after shutdown, its looking great]
Reinstall XCode from the Snow Leopard installation media, and when asking what to install, make sure you select command-line tools.
The easiest solution is to install XCode 3.2 supplied on the Snow Leopard DVD
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Successfully installed git on my Mac (Snow Leopard 10.6.8), but cannot get any of the commands to work. Everything I type the terminal spits out illegal instruction.
For example:
git --version
Illegal instruction
Note: This download was tailored for Snow Leopard as seen in the readme file they provided. So I have no idea why this is such a pain.
NOTES ABOUT THIS BUILD
============
* This build targets Snow Leopard and Lion. It may work on earlier or
later versions of OS X.
I have tried installing homebrew, but that doesn't work because it can't find Xcode which I also can't get on my computer.
Anyone know why git is not working on Snow Leopard?
It looks like you are running this on a Mac with a Core Duo processor. The git version you installed needs a Core 2 Duo.
...I've looked pretty carefully (I believe), and have been unsuccessful at getting an installation of Git for my Mac.
For various reasons, I'm running 10.6.8 of Mac OS X and will not be changing that anytime soon.
I've already gathered and installed the bundle exposed here:
https://help.github.com/articles/set-up-git
The installation instructions are pretty clear, and it's obvious to me that the package installed. But any attempts to use the git client from the command line result in an "Illegal Instruction" error.
I've sifted pretty carefully through information available here:
http://git-scm.com/book/en/Getting-Started-Installing-Git
There is another bundle that seems to be available. It is called "GitHub for Mac 1.7.5, but it appears to require Mac OS X 10.7 or later.
Has anyone else encountered this difficulty? Must I build from source?
I'm a couple of hours of reading and hacking into this effort? Is there something obvious that I've not considered?
Yes, I've had the same exact problem, and what I did is installed an earlier build from here:
https://code.google.com/p/git-osx-installer/
I'm running 10.6.8 and installed the newest build there, 1.8.4.2
SourceForge only has 1.9.0 and 1.8.5.2
http://sourceforge.net/projects/git-osx-installer/reviews?source=navbar
Someone on the reviews said they had trouble with both and went back to 1.7. I would try that if 1.8.4.2 doesn't work.
I was able to run the config commands without an illegal instruction error, at least.
I had this problem and was able to install a working version using Homebrew.
# first uninstall the broken version
# mount the DMG for the broken version using Finder
# "type" this with the tab key! it saves typing and fixes the version number
cd /Volumes/Git\ 2.0.1\ Snow\ Leopard\ Intel\ Universal/
./uninstall.sh
# make bash forget about the uninstalled binary
hash -r
cd
# now install the working version
# assumes you have Homebrew installed
brew install git
git version
I had this today on Snow Leopard after running the suggested git installer from git-scm. Really horrible. Found that installing Macports using their old Snow Leopard package and then
sudo port install git +svn +doc +bash_completion +gitweb
installs git plus its dependencies and git now works fine; version 1.9.3 installed and working on 10.6.8.
I had the same problem. There are various methods for downloading and installing git - Try macports or homebrew. The thing that finally worked for me was having xcode 3.2.6 installed with the additional command line tools - version 3.2 that comes with the leopard install disk wasn't enough. You can install xcode etc. from the disk and then run software update to upgrade it to 3.2.6.
The latest build for Snow Leopard in the official git-osx-installer repo is Git 2.3.5 currently. You can download it from http://sourceforge.net/projects/git-osx-installer/files/git-2.3.5-intel-universal-snow-leopard.dmg/download using web browser. This installation works for me on OS X 10.6.8.
Or you can check yourself for a newer version: http://sourceforge.net/projects/git-osx-installer/files/
Yes - it seems that it does not support the older OS version (mine was 10.6.8). I upgraded to the newest Mac OS 10.9.4 (the installation will take a while), reinstalled the Git software (note that it will ask for xcode to be installed, which I proceeded), and everything works fine from there. Hope this helps.
Ref : https://help.github.com/articles/does-github-for-mac-run-on-os-x-10-6-snow-leopard
To quote:
Does GitHub for Mac run on OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard?
No, GitHub for Mac requires OS X 10.7 (Lion) or higher.
We made this decision because the app relies on a number of
technologies which are not available in Mac OS X 10.6 or earlier. We
want to provide the best experience possible for the app's users, so
we've made the choice to only support 10.7 and above, and not make
earlier versions available.
The ironic thing is that all this used to work on my Mac, but Apple no longer supports 10.5.8, so I was forced to update to Snow Leopard, 10.6. And everything broke (thank you Apple).
On the surface, it seems simple. Build an open source package like octave under Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6)
Apple has made this difficult, to say the least. They no longer download XCode for older operating systems unless you are a paid developer. My Macbook pro 2.16Ghz cannot load Lion, so that option is not available.
My old fink doesn't work because it was old. In order to build a new one, I need Xcode 3.2, which I can't get (see above).
I downloaded a free gcc 4.2, and it works fine.
So in order to try to build octave, it's the old style gnu install:
./configure
make
make install
./configure fails because there is no fortran installed. That's a special case because the install of gcc didn't include fortran. So a fallback would be building a complete gcc which I have done in the past.
downloaded gcc 4.9:
gcc-4.9-20130728
inside, gcc49
gcc can't build because it needs the three subsidiary packages gmp, mpfr and mpc
I am now trying to build these, so that I can bootstrap a complete gcc build, but in the meantime, is there any simpler way to bootstrap these things? I find it hard to understand why no binaries are available for:
fink
octave
which would solve part of my current problems.
You can still get XCode. You just have to be registered on Apple Developer, but you do not have to pay for the license. You then download it through the Mac App store, or you can get a link that opens it in the App store here. Finally, you have to install the command line tools from within Xcode. These can be found under the Components tab of the Download Preferences panel.
Let me know if that does not help. My iMac running 10.6 is currently in for repairs, so I am on my 10.7 laptop and cannot test all the specifics yet.
I just started using Homebrew, but I am running into trouble right away.
The problem is that brew doctor keeps telling me 'Xcode not installed'.
I have seen a similar question (15891818) on this topic, but there was just a partial solution for Node.js
I first had Xcode 3.1 installed, and when I ran brew doctor it correctly informed me my Xcode was an old version, and told me to upgrade to 3.2.6. So I downloaded Xcode 3.2.1 from the apple site, after that I did a Software Update and upgraded to 3.2.6.
After this, Homebrew just doesn't find the Xcode installation at all. (I even restarted my computer)
I am on OS 10.6.8.
any ideas?
Thanks a lot
homebrew needs gcc, which i got from here without having to install xcode https://github.com/kennethreitz/osx-gcc-installer
I have installed the developer tools. I can compile code via Xcode and according to the docs /usr/bin/gcc & /usr/bin/cc should point to /usr/bin/gcc-4.0. Neither the symlinks or gcc-4.0 exist on my system (Snow Leopard). All I wish to do is compile some C on the terminal! I'm amazed by how complicated this task is. The command GCC is unsurprisingly returning "gcc: command not found".
Can anyone shed some light on this?
No! Reinstalling is the wrong answer!
Newer versions of XCode require you to install the command-line versions of the tools separately. In XCode, go to Preferences | Downloads, check the Components tab, and install them from there:
These binaries should be there after installing xcode. Check your path settings, and if you still don't have these reinstall xcode
Command line tools are no longer included with the latest XCode (even as an add on). Now you can download them here:
https://developer.apple.com/downloads/index.action
Did you install the latest Xcode after installing Snow Leopard, or is this the version of Xcode from a previous OS installation?
On my system with a clean Snow Leopard install the default compiler (and the one symlinked from cc and gcc) is gcc-4.2
I do have gcc-4.0 too, although it's not the default.