curl is more common than GNU wget is. For example, Cygwin, Arch Linux, and my android phone all come with curl by default whereas wget is missing.
Also, scripts/download.pl attempts to use curl before falling back to wget. This has been tested on a brand new install of Arch Linux. Signed-off-by: Rosen Penev <ros...@gmail.com> --- include/prereq-build.mk | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/prereq-build.mk b/include/prereq-build.mk index 6a423d2c7d..609c4dc88e 100644 --- a/include/prereq-build.mk +++ b/include/prereq-build.mk @@ -136,8 +136,8 @@ $(eval $(call SetupHostCommand,unzip,Please install 'unzip', \ $(eval $(call SetupHostCommand,bzip2,Please install 'bzip2', \ bzip2 --version </dev/null)) -$(eval $(call SetupHostCommand,wget,Please install GNU 'wget', \ - wget --version | grep GNU)) +$(eval $(call SetupHostCommand,curl,Please install "curl", \ + curl --version | grep curl)) $(eval $(call SetupHostCommand,perl,Please install Perl 5.x, \ perl --version | grep "perl.*v5")) @@ -163,3 +163,4 @@ prereq: $(STAGING_DIR_HOST)/bin/mkhash $(eval $(call TestHostCommand,ldconfig-stub,Failed to install stub, \ touch $(STAGING_DIR_HOST)/bin/ldconfig && \ chmod +x $(STAGING_DIR_HOST)/bin/ldconfig)) + -- 2.16.2 _______________________________________________ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/lede-dev