"make" with proxy

[David Israelsson]

Sergiu - IT <sergiu.study at acasa.ro> writes:

> Hi !
> In my network, on the gateway the www port is blocked but a squid
> server is enabled on port 88, so when I try to "make" a program, the
> sources cannot be downloaded. Can I do something to determine "make"
> to download the sources using the proxy ? And if I can, how is that ?

fetch(1) is used to download the distfiles.  The fetch(3) man page
lists a number of usable environment variables.  HTTP_PROXY might be
worth looking at.

    /David