Re: [Bug-wget] wget metalink support for Google Summer of Code 2012

[Anthony Bryan]

On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Micah Cowan <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 07/23/2012 12:47 PM, Micah Cowan wrote:
>> The po/Makevars issue still seems to be present; you'll need to use the
>> workaround mentioned on this mailing list in order to get a working
>> build. I tried both the bootstrap from current official sources (seems
>> to break at the bootstrap step), and the bootstrap from latest gnulib;
>> neither seem to fix the issue (a failed symlink attempt for
>> build-aux/missing prevents bootstrap from reaching the Makevars part of
>> the script).
>
> Wound up fixing this by getting the latest bootstrap from gnulib/, and
> fixing the bootstrap.conf to lose the reference to "build-aux/missing".
>
> I'm not sure why the official wget bootstrap wasn't working for our
> needs; seems to work fine when I actually have all of the master branch
> checked out to the working directory. Anyway...

great job İlim & Micah!

just wanted to chime in & say that I'm able to compile this now!
it may not be ready for prime time testing yet, but I think it's where
interested parties can take a peek now!

İlim was kind enough to implement listing "metalink" when you do 'wget
--version' if support is compiled in. this helps people like me tell
if they've stumbled along far enough :)

once this gets farther along the github issue tracker might be useful:
https://github.com/ilimugur/GSoC-Project/issues
I only mention it because I didn't know it existed until gsoc & seems
pretty handy...

ps - libmetalink 0.1 is out, and so is curl 7.27 w/ metalink support,
in case any inspiration can be gained from there.
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