Re: error when making a checkout of octave: gnulib not found

[Alexander Barth]

On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 11:51 AM, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
> On  6-Jan-2012, Alexander Barth wrote:
>
> | Hi all,
> |
> | I have a problem to make a checkout of octave:
> |
> | hg clone http://www.octave.org/hg/octave
> | real URL is http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave
> | destination directory: octave
> | requesting all changes
> | adding changesets
> | adding manifests
> | adding file changes
> | added 14151 changesets with 92372 changes to 8827 files (+7 heads)
> | updating to branch default
> | pulling subrepo gnulib
> | abort: repository [git]git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib not found!
> |
> | However, the address git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib should work. I can
> | make a check out of gnulib manually (in another folder):
> |
> | $ git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib
> | Initialized empty Git repository in /home/abarth/Test/gnulib/.git/
> | remote: Counting objects: 133241, done.
> | remote: Compressing objects: 100% (24030/24030), done.
> | remote: Total 133241 (delta 111453), reused 130888 (delta 109153)
> | Receiving objects: 100% (133241/133241), 22.57 MiB | 1017 KiB/s, done.
> | Resolving deltas: 100% (111453/111453), done.
> |
> | Any ideas?

Thank you for your answer.

>
> What version of Mercurial do you have?  I think you need at least
> version 1.8 to properly handle the subrepo.

I'm using version 1.4.3 (from ubuntu 10.04). So it looks like a
problem with my version of mercurial.

>
> BTW, the address@hidden list is no longer active.
sorry, it did not know this. I moved to address@hidden

Alex