Re: Version 2.4.1 cannot be built.

[James Sutherland]

On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> > > On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > The subject says it all. `make dep` is now broken.
> > > > 
> > > > It worked fine here, with 2.4.1 unpacked from the tarball.
> > > 
> > > I cannot find the source for GNU Make 3.77+
> > 
> > I have a hard time believing that you don't have
> > the skills to go to ftp.gnu.org and download the
> > stuff...
> > 
> 
> Now just a cotton-picken minute. When was the last time you
> accessed that site? I spent most of last night looking through
> EMPTY directories with files that are invisible to ftp but
> (sometimes) show with their `ls`, and never with nlist.
> 
> Maybe you can still download stuff if you are running from a
> Web Crawler, but it doesn't work with `ftp` anymore.

Works fine for me with "ftp"... Passive FTP is incredibly slow, though...

James.