Re: cs-list error with MacOS [was: Octave-3.3.55 and Octave-3.3.90 on OSX]

[Jarno Rajahalme]

On Mar 6, 2011, at 18:33 , ext Ben Abbott wrote:

> On Mar 6, 2011, at 11:21 AM, Richard Campbell wrote:
> 
>> 
>> I haven't been able to build the Mercurial tree for some time (it hangs at 
>> "Cloning into gnulib..." when I run autogen.sh) so without snapshots I won't 
>> be able to verify that the problem still exists. I didn't experience it in 
>> 3.4.0 though.
>> 
>> Campbell
> 
> Regarding gnulib, you may have a proxy/firewall problem. Jarno helped me with 
> pulling through my company's proxy server by using http access.
> 
>       http://fossplanet.com/f13/re-cloning-gnulib-behind-firewall-49511/
> 
> I have no problem building the developer's sources (32bit using Fink to 
> satisfy dependencies). The only time I've seen this problem is when I tried a 
> minimalistic build on a Mac with no Fink or MacPorts.
> 
> Ben
> 


I nowadays keep a local repo for gnulib and then set GNULIB_SRCDIR used by 
Octave build tools (bootstrap).

I.e. in my .profile (please replace /path/to with your local path):

# Local gnulib repository
export GNULIB_SRCDIR=/path/to/gnulib

And then in gnulib/.git/config:

        url = http://git.savannah.gnu.org/r/gnulib.git

( instead of    url = git://git.savannah.gnu.org/gnulib.git  please note the 
/r/ in the http url above!)

This way each fresh build of the Mercurial tree clones gnulib from a local 
repo, which I keep updated manually by git pull in gnulib every now and then. 
This works behind a firewall by setting http_proxy.