Building from repo generates an error message and fails.

[George R Goffe]

Niels,

Thanks for responding.

I have built from the "latest" snapshot without problems... from https://gmplib.org/download/snapshot/gmp-next/gmp-6.3.0-20250919151842.tar.zst.

I decided to abandon my local clone of the repo and re-clone. I'm seeing relatively lots of networking errors (Comcast is usually quite stable)... the problem looks similar to a network that's trying to load balance but one of the networks is unstable. Sigh...

abort: HTTP request error (incomplete response)
(this may be an intermittent network failure; if the error persists, consider contacting the network or ser
ver operator)

I'm running "hg clone https://gmplib.org/repo/gmp/ gmp" and seeing the above error msgs. 

I think you have isolated the problem area and I'm attepmting to prove this by building a fresh clone without bootstrap or other auto* or aclocal commands. I'll report back when I do this (i.e., if the network will let me... sigh).

Anyway,

Thanks for your help.

Best rgards,

George...






On Tuesday, September 30, 2025 at 12:07:06 PM PDT, Niels Möller <nisse at lysator.liu.se> wrote: 





George R Goffe <grgoffe at yahoo.com> writes:

> I'm kinda stuck trying to build gmp... given this error.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas on how to proceed?

I really have no clue. Maybe try building a snapshot instead?
https://gmplib.org/download/snapshot/ I think that should let you build
with plain configure + make, no bootstraping of autoconf-related files.


Regards,
/Niels

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