mxcl/homebrew — Issue #8610: Build difficulties on Snow Leopard
Author: dmrd
Created: 2011-11-16 07:22:19+00:00
State: open

I am having to build git from source since I do not have the privileges to install from the bin file. Unfortunately, I make it most of the way through the build before happens

make prefix=~/dev/git install
...
...
CC zlib.o
CC thread-utils.o
CC compat/memmem.o
AR libgit.a
ar: fatal error in /usr/bin/ranlib
make: *** [libgit.a] Error 1

Is this just a problem with privileges or is it a problem with building on OSX (Snow Leopard)?