I've added this information to our Build instruction "Known errors" section, as 
I think it will be useful to others:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox_OS/Building#Cannot_fetch_platform.2Flibcore

Thanks for highlighting this.

Chris Mills
   Senior tech writer || Mozilla
developer.mozilla.org || MDN
   [email protected] || @chrisdavidmills



On 13 Oct 2013, at 23:05, [email protected] wrote:

> Hi had the same problem, the issue is the still broken linaro git. To 
> overcome it I did the following:
> 
> git clone https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/b2g-manifest.git
> 
> Edited nexus-s.xml in this repo, and replaced the linaro git by the aosp one 
> so it reads:
> 
>  <default revision="refs/tags/android-4.0.4_r1.2"
>           remote="aosp"
>           sync-j="4" />
> 
> Commited the changes (git commit -a) and next changed the config.sh file in 
> the B2G checkout (not the manifest) in the master branch to point to my local 
> Manifest instead of the Mozilla one:
> 
> GITREPO=${GITREPO:-"file:///home/daniel/nexus-s/b2g-manifest"}
> 
> I was able to build both master (1.3) and 1.2 after doing this change. (For 
> 1.2, you have to redo it in the v1.2-branch as well)
> 
> The issue is well-known since a long time and there is already a pull request 
> for a patch, but I don't know why it has not landed in master yet.
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