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


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