Re: failing bootstrap step - gnulib git URL changed?

The first command works fine for me. Has it worked for you before in the
same environment, or did it just stop working recently?



On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Thomas Shinnick <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm at a strange location, so it's always possible a firewall is
> interfering, but I don't think so.  I am unable to make the ./bootstrap
> step work to fetch gnulib.  It is failing trying to connect to the
> repository.  I'm worried this might be real, someone needs to validate the
> existing URL, and maybe get the better URL?
>
> Can someone else try the command:
>       git clone --depth 365 'git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib' 'gnulib'
> as executed by the bootstrap script?  I see
>       Cloning into 'gnulib'...
>       fatal: unable to connect to git.sv.gnu.org:
>       git.sv.gnu.org[0: 140.186.70.72]: errno=Connection refused
>
> When I try the equivalent:
>       git clone --depth 365 http://git.sv.gnu.org/r/gnulib.git gnulib
> I see
>       Cloning into 'gnulib'...
>       remote: Counting objects: 16354, done.
>       remote: Compressing objects: 100% (7409/7409), done.
>       Receiving objects:  24% (3933/16354), 3.13 MiB | 336.00 KiB/s
>       ........
>
> If I modify .gitmodules as below the bootstrap step completes successfully:
>       diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
>       index a1d9326..e6ec3e8 100644
>       --- a/.gitmodules
>       +++ b/.gitmodules
>       @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
>        [submodule "gnulib"]
>               path = gnulib
>       -       url = git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib
>       +       url = http://git.sv.gnu.org/r/gnulib.git
>        [submodule "uthash"]
>               path = uthash
>               url = git://github.com/troydhanson/uthash
>
>
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