Re: cause of install failure (was: Arthur's test run on gcc)

arthur <[email protected]> Fri, 22 Mar 2013 13:57:26 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnu.mingw.devel
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On 22/03/2013 1:14 PM, Keith Marshall wrote:
> Definitely looks suspicious....

It is our FW block the download, and mingw-get doesn't dump any error ( 
even with -v -v -v). Can I install via proxy or https?

$ mingw-get install --reinstall msys-make-bin
mingw-get.exe: *** WARNING *** 
c:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/profile.xml: user
  configuration file missing
mingw-get.exe: *** INFO *** 
c:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/defaults.xml: trying
  system default configuration
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/make-3.81-3-msys-1.0.13-bin.tar.lzma?download
1.89 kB / 1.89 kB 
|================================================| 100%
reinstall: make-3.81-3-msys-1.0.13-bin.tar.lzma
  removing release make-3.81-3-msys-1.0.13-bin.tar.lzma
  installing make-3.81-3-msys-1.0.13-bin.tar.lzma

Administrator@VPCXP2 /c/MinGW/bin
$ cat ../var/cache/mingw-get/packages/make-3.81-3-msys-1.0.13-bin.tar.lzma
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"http://www.w3.or
g/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

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