Building the tap for both x86_64 and i386 requires an older version of the Xcode tools than what now ships for Mavericks (10.9). The newer version does not support creating i386 kernel images. These can be obtained from: https://developer.apple.com/downloads It requires a bit of a dance to unpack the package and obtain an unpacked tree, but once it's there you can change the line in tap/Makefile and build for both architectures. This will go on until i386 is thoroughly legacy, at which point we'll probably start just supporting x86_64. But that might be a while. We want to support old Macs through their entire useful life. Since this build is irritating, a pre-built copy is packaged in ext/ and is installed by 'make install'. So users shouldn't have to build this.