Re: [Mingw-msys] wget problems

[Edward D. <eld...@tr...>]

Greg Chicares wrote:
> On 2006-11-11 19:23 UTC, Edward Diener wrote:
>> When trying to add the mingwPort programs via msys, I first pulled the 
>> wget.exe from the wget-1.9.1 port and put it directly into my MSYS bin 
>> directly. Then when I try to run the mingwPort.sh script, I answer that 
>> I want the script to download and explode the file, and accept the rest 
>> of the defaults. I always get an error from wget saying "Missing URL" 
> 
> Is it the situation discussed in the following messages?
>   https://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=3425351
>   https://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=3483095
>   https://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=3483149

No. If I move the wget.exe to some other place in my path instead of 
/usr/bin, MSYS still tries to use it to download the requested file and 
fails with the same "Missing URL" message above.