I am currently building it - OS X Lion.
First, I had to install wget:)
Then, I got a certificate error on the https, so I pasted the command into Firefox and got the tarball.
After copying it to the julia dir, I edited the tar command and ran it.
Finally, doing make right now.
Here is the certificate error:
Connecting to github.com (github.com)|207.97.227.239|:443... connected.
ERROR: The certificate of `github.com' is not trusted.
ERROR: The certificate of `github.com' hasn't got a known issuer.
We used to use curl until recently so that it would build just fine on OS X. We changed it to wget, because it just seems so much easier to use than curl, and we had to do some nasty stuff at one point to download a few libraries that I couldn't figure out how to do with curl.
BTW, do try out the mac binaries if the build is an issue. We are still trying to make it all build seamlessly!
For the record "ease of use" was not why we switched to wget — there was (for a while) a dependency that could only be downloaded using wget's recursive downloading. That's not the case anymore, however, so we should really switch back to curl.
Here is the certificate error: Connecting to github.com (github.com)|207.97.227.239|:443... connected. ERROR: The certificate of `github.com' is not trusted. ERROR: The certificate of `github.com' hasn't got a known issuer.