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For people running Homebrew (brew), and getting ‘Illegal Instruction: 4’ with certain software, but specifically wget. They recently switched brew to compile with ‘Nehalem’ instructions. The oldest architecture still officially supported by Mojave.

You can switch back to ‘core2’ instructions by editing /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/extend/os/mac/hardware.rb. Replace the elsif version and else branch result with “:core2” like this:
Code:

# frozen_string_literal: true

module Hardware
  def self.oldest_cpu(version = MacOS.version)
    if CPU.arch == :arm64
      :arm_vortex_tempest
    elsif version >= :mojave
      :core2
    else
      :core2
    end
  end
end

Add this to /etc/hosts to break access to the pre-built packages:
Code:

0.0.0.0 homebrew.bintray.com

You can then reinstall wget from source:
Code:

brew reinstall openssl wget --build-from-source

A “roll your own brew upgrade”; This oneliner will stuff all the upgradable packages on a single brew reinstall line. Maybe that will work but it may fail with some bash error like a ‘commandline too long’. I had a pretty long list so you’ll probably be fine.
Code:

nice -n20 brew reinstall $(brew upgrade --dry-run | grep -v 'Updating Homebrew...' | grep -v '==> Would upgrade .* outdated packages:' | sed 's/\(.*\) .* .* .*$/\1/g') --build-from-source

To check if you have any other pre-built packages installed, list all ‘internet bottles’ (needs jq):
Code:

brew install jq --build-from-source
brew info --json=v1 --installed | jq -r "map(select(.installed[].poured_from_bottle) | .name) | unique | .[]"

Reinstall all bottles that were not built yourself, but poored from an internet source (needs jq):
Code:

brew install jq --build-from-source
for p in $(brew info --json=v1 --installed | jq -r "map(select(.installed[].poured_from_bottle) | .name) | unique | .[]"); do
  nice -n20 brew reinstall $p --build-from-source
done

Oneliner version:
Code:

nice -n20 brew reinstall $(brew info --json=v1 --installed | jq -r "map(select(.installed[].poured_from_bottle) | .name) | unique | .[]") --build-from-source

Adapted from: https://stackoverflow.com/a/55038073/273668

You’ll probably need to run that a couple of times, since dependencies may be poured from an internet bottle.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/macos-10-14-mojave-on-unsupported-macs-thread.2121473/post-27026470

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