On Sat, 2020-01-04 at 10:16 +0100, Christof Warlich wrote: > The original doesen't work from my system (Debian Buster) at least: > > > $ ./bootstrap > > ./bootstrap: Bootstrapping from checked-out make sources... > > ./bootstrap: getting gnulib files... > > Cloning into 'gnulib'... > > fatal: unable to connect to git.sv.gnu.org: > > git.sv.gnu.org[0: 209.51.188.201]: errno=Connection refused > > git.sv.gnu.org[1: 2001:470:142:5::201]: errno=Cannot assign requested > > address
Hm, this worked fine for me: $ git ls-remote git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib ...list of branches... Perhaps your system is sequestered behind some sort of firewall that will not allow the git: protocol (port 9418 IIRC) to pass through? Almost all firewalls allow HTTPS so that could explain it. Can you try "git ls-remote https://git.sv.gnu.org/git/gnulib" and see if that works, so we can know if it's the protocol or the hostname that is the problem?