Hi,
At the Weill Cornell workshop today, we found an ugly twist on getting git
working for old Macs. As reported in our troubleshooting wiki [1], for Mac OS X
10.8, git throws an "Lazy symbol" error, even if the installation went
smoothly. The diagnosis for this is to try to do a `git init` (it'll fail).
The only solution seems to be to download Xcode (apparently, the error is
because some libraries are missing and only get installed with Xcode). But
today, we found that Apple removed the proper Xcode version from the Apple
Store. Now the only fix is to go to the Apple Developer website and search for
the the right Xcode there. This requires an Apple Developer account that the
students probably won't have.
The only feasible thing is that instructors carry an USB with the old version
of Xcode (downloading, copying to a thumb drive, and then to the student's
laptop will take over an hour) and check people with Macs for 10.8.5,
preferable during the first day of the workshop.
Does someone know other alternative?
Best,
Ivan
[1]
https://github.com/swcarpentry/workshop-template/wiki/Configuration-Problems-and-Solutions#git
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