git fails on OS X

[certik]

[git] compat/apple-common-crypto.h: In function 'git_CC_EVP_EncodeBlock':
[git] In file included from git-compat-util.h:351:0,
[git]                  from cache.h:4,
[git]                  from ident.c:8:
[git] compat/apple-common-crypto.h: In function 'git_CC_EVP_EncodeBlock':
[git] compat/apple-common-crypto.h:32:2: error: unknown type name 'SecTransformRef'
[git]   SecTransformRef encoder;
[git]   ^

[Mark-E-Hamilton]

Did you find a resolution for this issue? I just tried building git-2.6.1 from source and got the same error.

FWIW, this error started occurring in git-2.1.0. I just built git-2.0.5 with no errors; doing the same with git-2.1.0 produces the error reported above.

This is on Mac OS X 10.9.5

[certik]

Yes, the solution is to disable compiling the apple-common-crypto.h file. I think export NO_APPLE_COMMON_CRYPTO=1 does the job.

[Mark-E-Hamilton]

Thanks, that got me past the compiler errors. Now, however, I'm getting this link error

LINK git-credential-store
Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:
  "_reencode_string_iconv", referenced from:
      _precompose_argv in libgit.a(precompose_utf8.o)
ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture x86_64
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [git-credential-store] Error 1

Any thoughts on this?

[certik]

Yes, that seems to be a problem with your libiconv, see e.g.: https://trac.macports.org/ticket/38851.

Are you using hashstack to build git? We build our own libiconv, that we bootstrap properly, so it should just work. If you can paste the whole problem, we can have a look.

[Mark-E-Hamilton]

Not sure what you mean by the whole problem. We're doing a fairily standard build from source

tar zxf git-2.6.1.tar.gz
cd git-2.6.1
export NO_APPLE_COMMON_CRYPTO=1
make configure
./configure --prefix=/blah/blah/blah
make

I did check to see that we had the most recent macports version of libiconv installed (1.14) and we do.

However, I don't know what hashstack is, so it might be that this is the wrong venue for this question. I was really just responding to your original post to see if you had resolved it. I've also posted this question on the git-users google group; perhaps that's a better place for it?

[certik]

hashstack is this repository where the issue you posted a comment belongs to, it's a source distribution, you can read more about it here:http://hashdist.github.io/. I wasn't sure if you were having problems using it, or if you found the issue by google and are installing things by hand. Thanks for clarifying it.

Yes, asking on the git mailinglist is definitely the way to go.

[dimpase]

git-2.4.0 simply does not build on OSX 10.12. High time to upgrade! I checked that git-2.10.2 builds with openssl compiled from source (with --with-openssl= flag set appropriately in ./configure)

see more on this here sagemath/binary-pkg#8
(a @vbraun 's package)...