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

On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 1:57 PM, arthur wrote:
> 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?
>

https should work.

> $ 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

Copy the defaults.xml file shown here to the profile.xml file shown above it.

> http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/make-3.81-3-msys-1.0.13-bin.tar.lzma?download

Simply change http:// to https:// here in the profile.xml file.

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