Date: 11 Oct 1999 19:54:56 -0500 From: Soren Dayton <dayton@overx.com> To: obrien@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: egcs port uses bzip2, but not on FTP sites Message-ID: <86k8ot4cv3.fsf@polo.overx.com> In-Reply-To: "David O'Brien"'s message of "Mon, 11 Oct 1999 17:24:50 -0700" References: <86hfk4azvy.fsf@polo.overx.com> <19991011172450.A34850@dragon.nuxi.com>
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"David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> writes: > > I'm trying to build gcc 2.95.1, and it appears that the port assumes > > that the source is bzip2ped (is the 2 silent?), > > Nope, bzip != bzip2 (sort of like ssh and ssh2 are two different things) Yes, yes. but would you say `bzip2ed' (as in, you got some 'tude, dude!) or would you say bzipped, but write bzip2ped or something like that :) > > not gzipped. But there are no .bz2s on the relevant ftp sites. > > Hum.. ftp://egcs.cygnus.com/pub/egcs/releases/gcc-2.95.1/ > and ftp://ftp.iij.ad.jp/pub/egcs/releases/gcc-2.95.1/ > has both .gz and .bz2 versions of the files. hmmmm. The point is that a large number of the sites on the list (for example, prep) do NOT have .bz2s lying around. Perhaps it would make lots of sense to just grab the .gz. (In fact, a fallback to getting a .tar.gz might be a reasonable thing to put in the makefile...) Soren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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