RE: pkg install from forge in windows

[JohnD]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John W. Eaton [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2016 2:16 PM
> To: JohnD; address@hidden
> Subject: Re: pkg install from forge in windows
> 
> 
> > Manually running commands:
> > urlwrite('http://packages.octave.org/download/bsltl-1.1.1.tar.gz',
> > 'bsltl-1.1.1.tar.gz')
> > error: urlwrite: Peer certificate cannot be authenticated with given
> > CA certificates
> >
> >
> > From the curl config options, it looks like curl isn't set to use the
> > native certificates, and I couldn't find any in the installed files,
> > so I'll take a look at getting that verified working for mxe-octave.
> 
> This seems to work properly for me with the 4.2.0 binary I built for
> distribution.
> 
> jwe
> 

I see the same issue occurring occasionally with the official w32 version as
well

I did a change to curl to add --win-winssl  to configure If compiling for
windows that (so far) appears to fix the issue for me and pushed to
mxe-octave

Philip, can you see if it also fixes the problem for you?