Install Haskel Platform from [[http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/mac.html]]. The version provided by Macports is too old to work with current versions of git-annex. Then execute

<pre>
sudo port install git-core ossp-uuid md5sha1sum coreutils pcre

sudo ln -s /opt/local/include/pcre.h  /usr/include/pcre.h # This is hack that allows pcre-light to find pcre
sudo cabal update
sudo cabal install missingh
sudo cabal install utf8-string
sudo cabal install pcre-light
sudo cabal install quickcheck  
sudo cabal install SHA
sudo cabal install dataenc
sudo cabal install monad-control
sudo cabal install HTTP
sudo cabal install hS3 # optional

# optional: this will enable the gnu tools, (to give sha224sum etc..., it does not override the BSD userland)
export PATH=$PATH:/opt/local/libexec/gnubin

git clone  git://git-annex.branchable.com/

cd git-annex
make
sudo make install
</pre>

Originally posted by Jon at <https://gist.github.com/671785> --[[Joey]], modified by [[kristianrumberg]]

See also:

* [[forum/OSX__39__s_haskell-platform_statically_links_things]]
* [[forum/OSX__39__s_default_sshd_behaviour_has_limited_paths_set]]