can't build png port

[h]

with belgian ISP pandora (telenet) you can only access http:// via their 
proxy.

the package added fine, but i would like to be able to compile the port. when 
i use nochecksum, it won't build at all either, error 2 then.


On Tuesday 10 August 2004 00:35, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> On Monday 09 August 2004 23:39, h wrote:
> > /usr/ports/graphics/png
> >
> > >> libpng-patch00-pngrtran-filler-RRGGBB-overflow.txt doesn't seem to
> > >> exist
> >
> > in /usr/ports/distfiles/.
> >
> > >> Attempting to fetch from ftp://swrinde.nde.swri.edu/pub/png/src/.
> >
> > fetch:
> > ftp://swrinde.nde.swri.edu/pub/png/src/libpng-patch00-pngrtran-filler-RRG
> >GB B-overflow.txt: size of remote file is not known
> > fetch: libpng-patch00-pngrtran-filler-RRGGBB-overflow.txt: local file
> > (1130 bytes) is longer than remote file (-1 bytes)
>
> [...]
>
> Are you fetching through a proxy by chance? I had similar problems getting
> the patchfiles downloaded when I did. Fetching them directly bypassing the
> proxy (run of the mill squid) worked. I have a suspicion the server which
> hosts the files is rather broken.