Building from Github .tar.gz files are supported as long as you download the tar.gz files from the "releases" page e.g. this one <https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/releases>. Click the big green button. Cloning over https is simple, you just need to use that URL instead of the git:// URL, and everything else should work normally. Specifically, you should be able to do:
git clone https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia.git And it should work just fine, barring any strange network problems. However, it looks to me like your compiler is too old (and you just sent a message out about that). Unless you have some reason to compile it yourself, could I ask you to try out a new binary distribution we're testing? It's just a .tar.gz file that you extract somewhere and you can run Julia straight out of that, no installation necessary. You can download the latest 64-bit version here <http://status.julialang.org/download/linux-x86_64>, or the latest 32-bit version here <http://status.julialang.org/download/linux-i386>. If you want to compile your own copy, I'd suggest adding the OPENBLAS_DYNAMIC_ARCH=0 line to the end of your make invocation, as Glen's link suggests. -E
