[Vm-dev] missing dependency ftp://.../libpng-1.6.29.tar.gz

Ben Coman btc at openinworld.com
Sun Dec 23 12:46:48 UTC 2018


On Sat, 22 Dec 2018 at 21:09, Ben Coman <btc at openinworld.com> wrote:

> It funny when the system seems to fight back.
> Just as I think I resolve my freetype build issues,
> my Windows build started failing as follows...
> > wget -q --no-check-certificate  -O
> ../../.thirdparty-cache/libpng-1.6.29.tar.gz
> ftp://ftp.simplesystems.org/pub/libpng/png/src/libpng16/libpng-1.6.29.tar.gz
> > make: *** [../third-party/Makefile.libpng:19:
> ../../.thirdparty-cache/libpng-1.6.29.tar.gz] Error 8
>
> What I see at ftp://ftp.simplesystems.org/pub/libpng/png/src/libpng16/
> is...
> Name                           Size   Date Modified
> libpng-1.6.34-LICENSE.txt    4.9 kB   29/09/2017, 08:00:00
> libpng-1.6.34-README.txt      96 3B   29/09/2017, 08:00:00
> libpng-1.6.34.tar.gz         1.4 MB   29/09/2017, 08:00:00
> libpng-1.6.34.tar.gz.asc      819 B   29/09/2017, 08:00:00
> libpng-1.6.34.tar.xz         975 kB   29/09/2017, 08:00:00
> libpng-1.6.34.tar.xz.asc      819 B   29/09/2017, 08:00:00
> lpng1634.7z                  734 kB   29/09/2017, 08:00:00
> lpng1634.7z.asc               819 B   29/09/2017, 08:00:00
> lpng1634.zip                 1.3 MB   29/09/2017, 08:00:00
> lpng1634.zip.asc              819 B   29/09/2017, 08:00:00
>
> So did version 1.6.29 exist yesterday but not today?
> or am I going crazy?
>

Not to reduce the significance of the point I raise, but just sharing that
I discovered that I had built
from an old branch, so the server for this missing tar.gz file had already
been corrected 11 months ago.

cheers -ben


> Anyway, should our builds avoid referencing external resources not under
> our control?  Or would it be be better to copy the required tar files to a
> server our community controls, (either files.opensmalltalk.org or
> file.pharo.org)?
>
> Plus btw our makefiles should verify sha1 checksums of these downloaded
> files via a field in the third-party/*spec files.
>
> cheers -ben
>
>
>
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