Re: Crosstool: FTP access to GNU no longer valid

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at gnu dot org>]

On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 08:25:18PM +0200, Martin Egholm Nielsen wrote:
>>>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?

I just thought I should clarify that
gcc.gnu.org == sources.redhat.com == sourceware.org == cygwin.com

The gcc releases start out at gcc.gnu.org and are mirrored to gnu.org.

cgf

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