failed to compile aget on squeeze

malayo · 03-23-2011, 09:03 PM

hi, i'm trying to compile aget in 0.4.1 on my debian squeeze 64-bit but it failed:

Code:

root@malayo:/home/malayo/tools/aget-0.4.1# make
gcc -g -W   -c -o main.o main.c
gcc -g -W   -c -o Aget.o Aget.c
gcc -g -W   -c -o Misc.o Misc.c
gcc -g -W   -c -o Head.o Head.c
Head.c: In function ‘http_head_req’:
Head.c:62: error: ‘struct hostent’ has no member named ‘h_addr’
make: *** [Head.o] Error 1

it seems that this tool was abandoned since 2009. If there's any alternative to an application that can download files from network by splitting the download like aget, please suggest.

malayo · 03-23-2011, 10:33 PM

this maybe not the solution but it seems that the 32-bit binary can be downloaded from its main site and can be installed on 64-bit debian like so:

# dpkg -i --force-architecture aget_0.4-4_i386.deb

knudfl · 03-23-2011, 11:58 PM

Debian squeeze 64-bit :

cd aget-0.4.1/ && patch -p0 < aget-0.4-fix_build_hostent.diff && make

The patch is from ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distrib...2010.1.src.rpm

Please do not run make or patch as root, no su required.
(Only 'make install' requires permissions to write outside /home/<user>/)
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