Re: Version 2.4.1 cannot be built.

[Doug McNaught <doug@wireboard.com>]

"Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> writes:

> See attached. "Just because you can see the candy doesn't mean
> they'll let you have any...."

[output of README when you connect:]

>  Please note that the directory structure on ftp.gnu.org was redisorganzied
>  fairly recently, such that there is a directory for each program.  One side
>  effect of this is that if you cd into the gnu directory, and do
>  > ls emacs*
>  you will get a list of all the files in the emacs directory, but it will not
>  be obvious from the ls output that you have to `cd emacs' before you can
>  download those files.

Now,

> ftp> cd gnu
> ftp> ls mak*
> 200 PORT command successful.
> 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list.
> -rw-r--r--   1 ftp      ftp          1095 Jul 14  1997 makeinfo.README
> 
> make:
> -rw-r--r--   1 ftp      ftp         27010 Sep 23  1989 make-3.55-3.56.diff.gz
[...]
> -rw-r--r--   1 ftp      ftp       1030393 Jun 24  2000 make-3.79.1.tar.gz
> -rw-r--r--   1 ftp      ftp        959005 Apr 11  2000 make-3.79.tar.gz
> 226 Transfer complete.
> ftp> bin
> 200 Type set to I.
> ftp> get make-3.79.1.tar.gz
> local: make-3.79.1.tar.gz remote: make-3.79.1.tar.gz
> 200 PORT command successful.
> 550 make-3.79.1.tar.gz: No such file or directory

Duh.

Read the README next time; that's what it's there for.

-Doug
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