[csw-maintainers] help with "make fetch"

[John Ellson]

Ben Walton wrote:
> Excerpts from John Ellson's message of Thu May 14 10:56:39 -0400 2009:
>
> Hi John,
>
>   
>> So I tried "make fetch" in an existing package, libxml2, and it doesn't 
>> work there either!
>>     
>
> The errors look as though the file CSWlibxml2.depend is missing from
> the trunk/files directory where it would be expected to live.  Can you
> see the file in the directory?
>   

Yes.  Its there.

Should I try another mgar package that you know works for you?
>   
>> I suspect I must have some broken utility in my PATH.   Any idea what? 
>> I've check the obvious:
>>     sed, gsed, awg, gawk, find, make, gmake,
>>     
>
> As long as the proxy settings are proper (for wherever you're doing
> the fetch), you should be fine.
>   
No proxy settings needed here.    "wget 
ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/libxml2-2.7.2.tar.gz"
works from the command line.
>   
>> And what happened to the ":" in the ftp URL?
>>     
>
> : is a special character in Make, so urls for fetching are stipped of
> them.  The actual wget commands add them back in (gar.lib.mk, if
> you're interested).
>
> HTH.
> -Ben
>