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Re: Obtaining sources behind a firewall
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Ben Abbott |
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Re: Obtaining sources behind a firewall |
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Mon, 27 Feb 2012 10:43:00 -0500 |
On Feb 27, 2012, at 10:25 AM, Sree wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'd like to contribute to the Octave project - I'm a rookie c++
> programmer. So I was trying to get the sources - but I'm behind a
> highly restrictive firewall - so while hg clone works, the git
> subclone for gnulib fails because it uses the git:// protocol. [ Only
> port 80 and 443 works for me ]
>
> I can clone gnulib separately by using
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/r/gnulib.git. Is there something that I
> can do?
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> Also, could someone point me to resources from where I can get started?
>
> TIA
To use a local gnulib archive ...
export GNULIB_SRCDIR="/Users/bpabbott/Development/git/gnulib"
./autogen.sh --no-git --gnulib-srcdir=$GNULIB_SRCDIR
Ben