While trying a fresh 'make bootstrap' on debian 9, I got an error when trying to download bzip2.
As reported by LWN, bzip.org seems now a free domain...
At the moment you can replace the link in gub/specs/bzip2.py with:
https://web.archive.org/web/20170824030156/http://www.bzip.org/1.0.5/bzip2-1.0.5.tar.gz
There's a comment in above article saying:
bzip.org is unfortunately no longer available for the bzip2 project. It will soon be restored at its former project home at https://sourceware.org/bzip2 (which currently only hosts older releases).
Before fixing GUB, let's wait and see if it gets restored.
GUB can't find the file and downloads an HTML page.. so first remove it:
then get the real .tar.gz file from Archive:
Last edit: Federico Bruni 2018-11-11
I have enough with above manual change each time I test a new GUB build, so I've sent a PR here:
https://github.com/gperciva/gub/pull/50
I wouldn't bother with Rietveld code review for such a minor change.
I hope Phil can just merge it.
eventually this PR (using Debian mirror) was merged:
https://github.com/gperciva/gub/pull/49