Re: [gentoo-user] wget killed -- wonder where I went wrong...

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Mon 08 August 2011 14:49:18 Michael Mol did opine thusly:
> On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Paul Hartman
> 
> <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info> 
wrote:
> >> After installation and successful 1st reboot, all attempts at 
wget gets killed:
> > Perhaps recompile wget with -ggdb and FEATURES=nostrip to keep
> > debugging symbols attached, and maybe you can debug to see where
> > it is failing.
> 
> Out of curiosity, how would one rebuild wget without a working wget?
> (How could one avoid the fetch-sources step, for example?)

use curl to d/l the sources, or any other http downloader. Even 
firefox will do at a pinch.

emerge -pvf <package>
shows what you'll need to fetch.

Now that I think about it, there's a FETCH setting in make.conf where 
you can define the d/l command portage uses.


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