Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] Sourceforge download troubles

[Tony Theodore]

On 14/04/2012, at 5:39 PM, Lothar May wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Am 13. April 2012 17:32 schrieb Matthias Gehre <address@hidden>:
>> mingw-cross-env's experiences difficulties downloading packages from
>> sourceforge for me.
>> Examples are expat, pcre and libpng. I updated to latest git.
>> 
>> The wget output already shows 'Length: 20191 (20K) [text/html]',
>> and the file downloaded contains some sourceforge html. Then, of course,
>> it fails the checksum verification.
>> 
>> Does sourceforge try to prevent direct downloads? Is anyone else
>> experiencing this?
>> 
> 
> I'm also having trouble downloading from sourceforge using wget (or
> curl). It seems that command lines like
> wget 
> http://ncu.dl.sourceforge.net/project/expat/expat/2.0.1/expat-2.0.1.tar.gz
> no longer work (they used to work but were redirected to a random
> mirror for some time now, even though there was e.g. the "ncu" mirror
> in the url).
> Since mxe uses the upper kind of link for expat, this seems to be the problem.

Could you try using "downloads" instead of specifying the mirror? i.e:

wget 
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/expat/expat/2.0.1/expat-2.0.1.tar.gz

or

make download SOURCEFORGE_MIRROR=downloads.sourceforge.net

and see if that works any better?

Thanks,

Tony