rsb build process - ftp error

[Joel Sherrill]

On March 20, 2015 8:41:37 PM CDT, Anand Krishnan <anandkp92 at gmail.com> wrote:
>yeah I do think that ftp is blocked. I was in a campus network. 
>
>Currently I am using another network, but its only a temporary setup. I
>cannot download from ftp://ftp.gnu.org. But I can access
>http://ftp.gnu.org
>
>I will check out the files mentioned,  but in the download.py file,
>ftp_downloader is an http_downloader itself. 

Chris can answer for sure but if the URL in the cfg files are ftp it is likely going to need to change to http. The code may be the same but the network port is different. 

You will also hit this with gcc, gdb and binutils.

A patch is welcomed

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>On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 7:05 AM, Joel Sherrill
><joel.sherrill at oarcorp.com> wrote:
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>
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>On 3/20/2015 8:14 PM, Anand Krishnan wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am trying to build RSB for sparc. During the installation, it is
>> trying to download autoconf-2.69.tar.gz over ftp but fails.
>>
>Is ftp blocked for you by a firewall? ftp.gnu.org is up and accessible
>to me.
>> Autoconf is already installed in my host machine. Why is it trying
>> again to download?
>Because it may or may not be the same version and patches as the one
>that is mated
>to the autoconf/make build infrastructure with RTEMS. I have at least a
>half dozen
>versions of automake and autoconf installed to deal with various GNU
>packages.
>> Also I think there is some error with downloading via ftp - is there
>> some way I can change the download through http?
>>
>You can change that in these files.
>
>[joel at localhost rtems-source-builder]$ ls  -1
>source-builder/config/auto*
>source-builder/config/autoconf-2-1.cfg
>source-builder/config/automake-1-1.cfg
>
>> I am also attaching the log file.
>>
>That shows ftp isn't working but not why. Can you get there manually?
>
>Is ftp a blocked service? or is there some other issue?
>> regards,
>> anand
>
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