Re: [PATCH 1/2] autoconf: check for wget and ftp

["Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>]

On 30/10/12 16:02, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Roger Pau Monne writes ("[Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/2] autoconf: check for wget and ftp"):
>> Some OSes don't come with wget by default, so ftp should be choosen
>> on those. Add an autoconf check to check for wget and ftp, and
>> replace the usage of hardcoded wget in tools.
> 
> I don't think this can be right; wget is used in many more places.  At
> the very least it looks like it will break the stubdom build since
> that is full of WGET.  Did you grep for WGET ?

Does stubdom build import config/Tools.mk? I thought it was only used to
build the tools directory. If that's the case I don't think it will
break anything, since we define a new variable $FETCHER, that shouldn't
be used anywhere else, so the rest will continue to use the hardcoded
wget, or whatever it was using prior to this patch.

> Does "ftp -o blah.tar.gz http://xenbits.xen.org/xen-extfiles/blah.tar.gz"
> really work on NetBSD and download to the local file "blah.tar.gz" ?

Yes.