see http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/mingw-cross-env-list/2014-07/msg00002.html
Many FTP servers block connections from Tor and some
VPN servers. HTTP servers don't do this normally.
Example of failed FTP download attempt of binutils-2.24.tar.bz:
$ torsocks wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/binutils/binutils-2.24.tar.bz2
--2014-07-20 13:26:48-- ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/binutils/binutils-2.24.tar.bz2
=> `binutils-2.24.tar.bz2'
Resolving ftp.gnu.org (ftp.gnu.org)... 208.118.235.20
Connecting to ftp.gnu.org (ftp.gnu.org)|208.118.235.20|:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done.
==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD (1) /pub/gnu/binutils ... done.
==> SIZE binutils-2.24.tar.bz2 ... 22716802
==> PASV ... done. ==> RETR binutils-2.24.tar.bz2 ...
Error in server response, closing control connection.
Retrying.
Same package was downloaded via HTTP successfully:
$ torsocks wget http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/binutils/binutils-2.24.tar.bz2
--2014-07-20 13:32:37-- http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/binutils/binutils-2.24.tar.bz2
Resolving ftp.gnu.org (ftp.gnu.org)... 208.118.235.20
Connecting to ftp.gnu.org (ftp.gnu.org)|208.118.235.20|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 22716802 (22M) [application/x-bzip2]
Saving to: `binutils-2.24.tar.bz2'
100%[=================>] 22,716,802 721K/s in 24s
2014-07-20 13:33:03 (915 KB/s) - `binutils-2.24.tar.bz2' saved [22716802/22716802]
Trying download from Tor Browser, I get error message:
425 Security: Bad IP connecting.
HTTP URLs were added to FTP URLs-only packages.
In many cases, ftp://ftp.gnu.org can be accessed
from http://ftp.gnu.org
If both URLs of a package are FTP, then one of them
was replaced with HTTP.
Command to check that those packages can be build successfully
if behind Tor:
$ torsocks make autoconf automake binutils bison cloog coreutils file freetds gcc gdb gettext gmp gnutls gperf isl libbluray libffi libgcrypt libgpg_error libidn libmicrohttpd libpng libxml2 libxslt m4 pthreads-w32 sed dcmtk mpfr
I've run the test above successfully.
Most of the automatic conversion was done using the following Python script:
import os
import re
pkgs = sorted(mkfile[:-len('.mk')] for mkfile in os.listdir('src') if mkfile.endswith('.mk'))
with open('index.html', 'rb') as f:
index = f.read()
pkgs_index = re.findall('<td class="package">([^<]*)</td>', index)
assert pkgs_index == pkgs
versions = dict(re.findall('<td id="([^"]*)-version">([^<]*)</td>', index))
assert sorted(versions.keys()) == pkgs
for pkg in pkgs:
version = versions[pkg]
with open('src/' + pkg + '.mk', 'rb') as f:
mk = f.read()
checksumpos = mk.index('\n$(PKG)_CHECKSUM ')
versionline = '\n$(PKG)_VERSION := %(version)s' % {'version': version}
newmk = mk[:checksumpos] + versionline + mk[checksumpos:]
with open('src/' + pkg + '.mk', 'wb') as f:
f.write(newmk)
Unsetting CONFIG_SITE was the right way to solve the problem that
--libdir was working around.
This reverts commit 0b3240f9d8.
This reverts commit 3653eb6ec1.
This reverts commit 593ab5a706.
Fix "downdates" reported by Niels Kristian Bech Jensen for packages
gnutls and physfs by sorting version numbers properly and allowing
(in the case of gnutls) version number parts with more than one digit.
-Replace echo and sed hacks
-gai_strerror test seems to work now without hack.
-Disable crywrap for Windows with configure logic.
-Disable doc and tests targets with patch.
-Improve handling of LIBS and .pc file
-zlib is already in GNUTLS_REQUIRES_PRIVATE
-Use LIBS to introduce -lws32_2 into Libs.private
-log build commands
-build and install utilities, useful for troubleshooting
-but don't try to build crywrap on Windows
-specify WINVER for the sake of getaddrinfo
-enable parallel building which seems to work now
Mark Brand
Elie Roux
Boris Nagaev
Tony Theodore
Niels Kristian Bech Jensen
Volker Grabsch
Ulrich Klauer
Volker Grabsch