mpfr fetch problem

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Nov 18, 2008, at 17:09, Altoine Barker wrote:

> My SPECS:
>
> Mac OSX 10.5.5 PPC G5 Dual         Mac OSX 10.4.11 PPC G4
> XCode 3.1.1                        XCode 3.1.1
> MacPorts 1.600 (Binary)            MacPorts 1.600 (Binary)
>
> I can not fetch the mpfr port. It just hangs there attempting to fetch
> but not succeeding. I went to the www.mpfr.org website and it  
> appears to
> be down like www.openjpeg.org was a week ago. I tried the  following
> solution provided to me by Bryan that was posted at:
>
> http://trac.macports.org/wiki/ProblemHotlist#Fetchfailures
>
> And ran the following command:
>
> sudo env MASTER_SITE_LOCAL=http://distfiles.macports.org/mpfr port -v
> fetch mpfr

The mpfr port stores its distfiles in a directory for each version.  
You can see this by visiting:

http://distfiles.macports.org/mpfr

So you would need to run this:

sudo env MASTER_SITE_LOCAL=http://distfiles.macports.org/mpfr/2.3.2  
port -v
fetch mpfr