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