rsb build process - ftp error

[Anand Krishnan]

yeah, i did encounter it.

what I was thinking was instead of changing to http, we'll wait for ftp
timeout and then try http?

I think I can build a patch that does this. Give me some time to
familiarize with the code and I'll do it.

On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 7:32 AM, Joel Sherrill <joel.sherrill at oarcorp.com>
wrote:

>
>
> 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
>
> >
> >On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 7:05 AM, Joel Sherrill
> ><joel.sherrill at oarcorp.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >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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