[vlc-devel] curl probleam.

[Jean-Paul Saman]

redsuyu at foxmail.com wrote:
>        when   i do make in  vlc-trunk/extras/contrib, the  tar file can't download . why ?
> the size of it is  708k .  
> 
> 
> curl -O http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/freetype/freetype-2.1.9.tar.gz
>   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
>                                  Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
>  54 1303k   54  707k    0     0   2401      0  0:09:15  0:05:01  0:04:14  2871
> curl: (18) transfer closed with 610240 bytes remaining to read

error message says "transfer closed" so I guess the server closed the 
connection. I would try again.

> make[2]: *** [freetype-2.1.9.tar.gz]       		

And if it still fails replace curl with wget and try again.

Gtz,
Jean-Paul Saman.