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Date:      Wed, 3 Mar 2004 10:28:50 +1300
From:      Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
To:        Glenn Sieb <ges@wingfoot.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: /etc/make.conf & wget...
Message-ID:  <20040302212850.GA2845@grimoire.chen.org.nz>
In-Reply-To: <3107.65.246.246.82.1078254879.squirrel@www.wingfoot.org>
References:  <3107.65.246.246.82.1078254879.squirrel@www.wingfoot.org>

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On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 02:14:39PM -0500, Glenn Sieb wrote:
> In my /etc/make.conf I have:
> 
> FETCH_CMD = /usr/local/bin/wget
> 
> When I go to build a port (in this case, kde3), it goes to fetch gettext
> (for example), then I get:
> 
> wget: illegal option --
> 
> Then it stops. I've updated wget to 1.8.2, with the same result. So now
> I've #'d out that line in make.conf so I'm using fetch again, but I'd
> really prefer to use wget, if possible.
> 
> I've googled for this, with no luck... Any ideas?

The recent updates to the ports/Mk/* files restricts the FETCH_CMD to
/usr/bin/fetch. Why would you use wget instead of the base-system's
fetch to build the ports anyway?
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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