Re: Can't bootstrap behind a firewall

[Dr. Alexander Klein]

Am 30.09.2011 um 14:02 schrieb Ben Abbott:

> What you can do is clone the gnulib stuff via http, and then point  
> Octave's autogen.sh to your local copy.
>
>         
> http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/Octave-3-3-55-and-Octave-3-3-90-on-OSX-td3247286i60.html#a3338451


Ben,

using the URL from your previous solution really did the trick, _and_  
I managed to keep it working automatically by applying the following  
patch!

diff -r 41c2f4633a62 build-aux/bootstrap
--- a/build-aux/bootstrap       Wed Sep 28 09:14:45 2011 -0700
+++ b/build-aux/bootstrap       Fri Sep 30 14:11:25 2011 +0200
@@ -498,7 +498,7 @@

     shallow=
     git clone -h 2>&1 | grep -- --depth > /dev/null && shallow='-- 
depth 2'
-    git clone $shallow git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib "$gnulib_path" ||
+    git clone $shallow http://git.savannah.gnu.org/r/gnulib/  
"$gnulib_path" ||
       cleanup_gnulib

     trap - 1 2 13 15

Maybe this could be included as a general fallback-mechanism, since  
nothing else but cloning is done at this point?

Later,

        Alex

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