Re: Crosstool: FTP access to GNU no longer valid

[Martin Egholm Nielsen <martin at egholm-nielsen dot dk>]

> > I tried out your crosstool script for the first time today and 
> > discovered that FTP access to GNU no longer works. When I try to visit 
> > ftp://ftp.gnu.org, I get "Invalid response from FTP server: (null)". 
> > I'm not sure if this is a transient problem or not, but I do know that 
> > http://ftp.gnu.org works, and by doing a global search and replace of 
> > the former with the latter for all crosstool files, I got the script 
> > to run. You might want to consider making this change for the next 
> > release of crosstool.
> I had another workaround (fall back to ftp://gcc.gnu.org), but thanks 
> for the tip!
> (I still suspect server overload or misconfiguration,
> and I think ftp access to ftp.gnu.org ought to work again
> once they address that.
>
> Gee, I hope crosstool isn't the *reason* for the overload...
I would think it is rather the new GCC 4.0 RC1. I guess many has been 
waiting for that...
But who knows... Have you any idea how many crosstool.tgz's are being 
downloaded?

// Martin


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