Re: Can't bootstrap behind a firewall

[Ben Abbott]

On Sep 30, 2011, at 7:41 AM, Dr. Alexander Klein wrote:

> Me again,
> 
> when I wanted to bootstrap the current hg-repository on another machine, I 
> ran into a git error that's probably caused by our firewall which is set up 
> pretty strictly:
> 
> Virtubuntu:/usr/local/src/dev/octave> ./autogen.sh
> generating source lists for liboctave/Makefile...
> ../liboctave/vx-op-inc.mk is unchanged
> ../liboctave/vx-op-src.mk is unchanged
> ../liboctave/mx-op-inc.mk is unchanged
> ../liboctave/mx-op-src.mk is unchanged
> ../liboctave/smx-op-inc.mk is unchanged
> ../liboctave/smx-op-src.mk is unchanged
> generating doc/interpreter/images.mk...
> ../../doc/interpreter/images.mk is unchanged
> generating src/DLD-FUNCTIONS/module.mk...
> ../../src/DLD-FUNCTIONS/module.mk is unchanged
> bootstrapping...
> build-aux/bootstrap: Bootstrapping from checked-out octave sources...
> build-aux/bootstrap: getting gnulib files...
> Initialized empty Git repository in /usr/local/src/dev/octave/gnulib/.git/
> git.sv.gnu.org[0: 140.186.70.72]: errno=Connection timed out
> fatal: unable to connect a socket (Connection timed out)
> 
> I found one suggested solution for the problem, namely to replace git:// in 
> the respective URL by http://, but with http:// the request fails with yet 
> another error:
> 
> fatal: http://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib/info/refs not found: did you run git 
> update-server-info on the server?
> 
> What else could I try?
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
>       Alex

Some time ago I had the same problem.

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