On Sun, Jul 2, 2017 at 12:11 AM, Pierre Labastie
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On 02/07/2017 02:38, Roger Koehler wrote:
>> On Sat, Jul 1, 2017 at 6:30 PM, Roger Koehler <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>>> On Sat, Jul 1, 2017 at 6:14 PM, Roger Koehler <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>> Okay. I will double check. I got an error from jhalfs, and this was the
>>>> checksum on the file that it downloaded.
>>>
>>> It is repeatable. jhalfs must be getting the file from a different
>>> server. I downloaded it manually to my local archives directory and
>>> the checksum agrees with the book.
>
> Normally, jhalfs uses the link from the book, so it cannot be a different
> server. But, as Bruce said, sourceforge redirects to various servers.
>
>>
>> This is bothersome. I ran jhalfs again, and it overwrote my local
>> archive with the file with the wrong checksum and produced the same
>> error.
>>
>
> That should not happen. If the file is present in the archive, or in $SRC_DIR,
> it should not be downloaded again. But maybe, you have a different version in
> the archive and in $SRC_DIR. In this case, jhalfs uses the one in $SRC_DIR. If
> you want to use the one in the archive, you may remove the faulty one from
> $SRC_DIR before running jhalfs again.
>
> Note that with the default "envars.conf" the archive and $SRC_DIR are the same
> directory, but you may have a different setting.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Pierre

Yes, thank you!

I had it in my head that when I select "Rebuild Makefiles" that it
cleaned the sources directory, but it makes sense that it should not.

I reformatted the partition and started with a clean jhalfs, and it
looks like it found the right file this time.
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