Unable to install on a PPC xserve running os x 10.4.11

[pkropf]

core:~ admin$ ruby -e "$(curl -fsSkL raw.github.com/mistydemeo/tigerbrew/go)" ==> This script will install: /usr/local/bin/brew /usr/local/Library/... /usr/local/share/man/man1/brew.1

Press ENTER to continue or any other key to abort ==> Downloading and Installing Homebrew... csh: if: Missing file name. -e:180: command not found: --version -e:80:in git': undefined method<' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError) from -e:148 from -e:147:in `chdir' from -e:147 core:~ admin$

[mistydemeo]

Can you retry the installer? There was a bug in the git version parsing if you didn't have git installed.

[mistydemeo]

Also, can you tell me what the output is on Tiger of running /usr/bin/which -s git?

[pkropf]

core:~ admin$ ruby -e "$(curl -fsSkL raw.github.com/mistydemeo/tigerbrew/go)" ==> This script will install: /usr/local/bin/brew /usr/local/Library/... /usr/local/share/man/man1/brew.1

Press ENTER to continue or any other key to abort ==> Downloading and Installing Homebrew... csh: if: Missing file name. /bin/bash: line 0: /bin/bash: pipefail: invalid option name Failed during: /bin/bash -o pipefail -c '/usr/bin/curl -fsSLk https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/tarball/master | /usr/bin/tar xz -m --strip 1' core:~ admin$

[pkropf]

This is very strange:

core:~ admin$ /usr/bin/which -s git csh: if: Missing file name. core:~ admin$

[ghost]

I'll jump in here as well. I'm running a 7450e PPC Tiger Powerbook. I just installed XCode 2.5 earlier today and was running into the same initial error pkropf had and now I'm duplicating pkropf's most recent error.

This is what I'm seeing now:

new-host-3:~ apple$ echo $PATH /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin new-host-3:~ apple$ ruby -e "$(curl -fsSkL raw.github.com/mistydemeo/tigerbrew/go)" ==> This script will install: /usr/local/bin/brew /usr/local/Library/... /usr/local/share/man/man1/brew.1

Press ENTER to continue or any other key to abort ==> Downloading and Installing Homebrew... csh: if: Missing file name. /bin/bash: line 0: /bin/bash: pipefail: invalid option name Failed during: /bin/bash -o pipefail -c '/usr/bin/curl -fsSLk https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/tarball/master | /usr/bin/tar xz -m --strip 1'

[mistydemeo]

Hm, I guess this is Tiger's which acting deficient again. I'll replace the shelling out with a copy of the helper function from the main homebrew code.

/bin/bash: line 0: /bin/bash: pipefail: invalid option name

pipefail must not have been added until bash 3.x. I'll remove that call here.

[mistydemeo]

OK, retry - removed pipefail, replaced which with the helper from homebrew, and fixed another couple of things. Should be working now.

[ghost]

Worked flawlessly! Thanks!! After this initial setup, what are the main differences that I should look for between this and homebrew? I have done a fair amount of research on Tigerbrew, well looked at about everything I could find. I still don't understand if this is it's own beast or if Tigerbrew is a way to just get Tiger users to where 10.5+ users are with Homebrew.

[pkropf]

Oh yeah, much better! Thanks for the quick turn around and fix.

[mistydemeo]

Great, glad it's working!

After this initial setup, what are the main differences that I should look for between this and homebrew?

The goal of tigerbrew is basically to let users on Tiger/anything and Leopard/PPC run anything that people on Intel and newer OS X versions can get with homebrew. That's not always possible (some software simply will not work on PowerPC, or on older OS X versions), but I try to get as much working as absolutely possible.

There are three main areas of changes:

• Changes to the core code to accommodate PowerPC processors, the peculiarities of Tiger (like its kinda-missing expat), and the like. Many of these are actually maintained in homebrew but inactive there, since homebrew doesn't support either PowerPC or Tiger; maintaining it there helps avoid merge conflicts when merging in changes. Since I'm also a homebrew maintainer it's easy for me to merge code there when appropriate.
• New formulae that aren't necessary on newer versions of OS X and which help out Tiger users. These include newer Apple build tools (like cctools), and newer versions of the standard system commandline utilities (like shell_cmds). I intend to continue backporting more of these. You can find out more about them on the tigerbrew wiki.
• Modifications to individual formulae. There are often a lot of changes that have to be made to accommodate building on Tiger and/or PowerPC, be they extra build flags, hacks, patches, etc. These aren't necessary in homebrew so they don't make it upstream to avoid cluttering its code.

Let me know if you have any other questions! I really need to document some of this stuff more clearly.

[ghost]

This is great. You've really gone out of your way to help. I appreciate it.