Re: What's cooking in git.git (Feb 2016, #07; Thu, 25)

Torsten Bögershausen [off-list ref] writes:

How about something like this as a workaround ?
(I can send a proper patch, if this is the way forward)
...
    Make Git compile under Mac OS X 10.6 by using clang instead of gcc

Given that it is understandable that Apple is no longer interesting
in fixing compiler bugs for 10.6, I think that is the best we could
do to help its users.

...
+       ifeq ($(shell test "`expr "$(uname_R)" : '\([0-9][0-9]*\)\.'`" -ge 10 &&
echo 1),1)

This singles out 10.6-and-nothing-else, 10.6-or-older or
10.6-or-newer?

That "-ge", which smells like a copy-and-pasta from the next one
that says "we have getdelim on 10.7-and-newer" bothers me.

+    CC = clang
+       endif
        ifeq ($(shell test "`expr "$(uname_R)" : '\([0-9][0-9]*\)\.'`" -ge 11 &&
echo 1),1)
                HAVE_GETDELIM = YesPlease
        endif