Re: Can't bootstrap behind a firewall

[Ben Abbott]

John,

Do you have any concerns about modifying the bootstrap script to clone gnulib 
via http?

Ben


On Sep 30, 2011, at 8:16 AM, Dr. Alexander Klein wrote:

> 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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