Build problem

[Robert T. Short]

I am trying to rebuild octave from scratch and am having a problem with 
the gnulib part.

First, I am running debian stable on fairly new hardware, keep it 
updated regularly.

I do the following:

hg clone http://www.octave.org/hg/octave

cd octave
./autogen.sh
./configure (stuff)
make
make check


But in the ./autogen step it gets to the

git clone $shallow ... step (in bootstrap)

displays "Cloning into gnulib..."

and stops forever.  It never goes further, never does anything useful.


Am I just not understanding?

Bob