Some people are reposrting that ftp does not work on their network, probably due to proxies, while http does work.

Some (most) of the sites we use toretrieve tarballs have http equivallent for the ftp service. Use http as a failover.
There's no solution for those sites that do not have such an http equivalent.

 /trunk/scripts/build/binutils.sh         |    5     2     3     0 ++---
 /trunk/scripts/build/libc_glibc.sh       |    4     2     2     0 ++--
 /trunk/scripts/build/libc_uClibc.sh      |    2     1     1     0 +-
 /trunk/scripts/build/debug/400-ltrace.sh |    2     1     1     0 +-
 /trunk/scripts/build/debug/300-gdb.sh    |    8     3     5     0 +++-----
 /trunk/scripts/build/kernel_linux.sh     |    7     2     5     0 ++-----
 /trunk/scripts/build/cc_gcc.sh           |    6     2     4     0 ++----
 /trunk/scripts/build/gmp.sh              |    4     1     3     0 +---
 8 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)

8 files changed, 14 insertions, 24 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/build/binutils.sh b/scripts/build/binutils.sh
index 4fb94b6c..2de697d4 100644
--- a/scripts/build/binutils.sh
+++ b/scripts/build/binutils.sh
@@ -8,9 +8,8 @@ do_print_filename() {
 
 # Download binutils
 do_binutils_get() {
-    CT_GetFile "${CT_BINUTILS_FILE}"                            \
-               ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/binutils                   \
-               ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/binutils
+    CT_GetFile "${CT_BINUTILS_FILE}"    \
+               {ftp,http}://{ftp.gnu.org/gnu,ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel}/binutils
 }
 
 # Extract binutils
diff --git a/scripts/build/cc_gcc.sh b/scripts/build/cc_gcc.sh
index 92dc4054..8578caf9 100644
--- a/scripts/build/cc_gcc.sh
+++ b/scripts/build/cc_gcc.sh
@@ -15,10 +15,8 @@ do_cc_get() {
     # Arrgghh! Some of those versions does not follow this convention:
     # gcc-3.3.3 lives in releases/gcc-3.3.3, while gcc-2.95.* isn't in a
     # subdirectory! You bastard!
-    CT_GetFile "${CT_CC_FILE}"                                  \
-               ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gcc/${CT_CC_FILE}          \
-               ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gcc/releases/${CT_CC_FILE} \
-               ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gcc
+    CT_GetFile "${CT_CC_FILE}"  \
+               {ftp,http}://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gcc{,{,/releases}/${CT_CC_FILE}}
 }
 
 # Extract gcc
diff --git a/scripts/build/debug/300-gdb.sh b/scripts/build/debug/300-gdb.sh
index 7140a0f3..2c273982 100644
--- a/scripts/build/debug/300-gdb.sh
+++ b/scripts/build/debug/300-gdb.sh
@@ -15,11 +15,9 @@ do_debug_gdb_suffix() {
 }
 
 do_debug_gdb_get() {
-    CT_GetFile "gdb`do_debug_gdb_suffix`"                           \
-               ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gdb                        \
-               ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/gdb/releases            \
-               ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/gdb/old-releases        \
-               ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/gdb/snapshots/current 
+    CT_GetFile "gdb`do_debug_gdb_suffix`"           \
+               {ftp,http}://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gdb \
+               ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/gdb/{{,old-}releases,snapshots/current}
 }
 
 do_debug_gdb_extract() {
diff --git a/scripts/build/debug/400-ltrace.sh b/scripts/build/debug/400-ltrace.sh
index 3c852634..d64dc805 100644
--- a/scripts/build/debug/400-ltrace.sh
+++ b/scripts/build/debug/400-ltrace.sh
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ do_print_filename() {
 }
 
 do_debug_ltrace_get() {
-    CT_GetFile "ltrace_${CT_LTRACE_VERSION}.orig" ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/ltrace/
+    CT_GetFile "ltrace_${CT_LTRACE_VERSION}.orig" {ftp,http}://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/ltrace/
     # Create a link so that the following steps are easier to do:
     cd "${CT_TARBALLS_DIR}"
     ltrace_ext=`CT_GetFileExtension "ltrace_${CT_LTRACE_VERSION}.orig"`
diff --git a/scripts/build/gmp.sh b/scripts/build/gmp.sh
index 7cc2a859..ec99a2ab 100644
--- a/scripts/build/gmp.sh
+++ b/scripts/build/gmp.sh
@@ -10,9 +10,7 @@ do_print_filename() {
 
 # Download GMP
 do_gmp_get() {
-    CT_GetFile "${CT_GMP_FILE}"                 \
-               http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/gnu/gmp  \
-               ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gmp
+    CT_GetFile "${CT_GMP_FILE}" {ftp,http}://{ftp.sunet.se/pub,ftp.gnu.org}/gnu/gmp
 }
 
 # Extract GMP
diff --git a/scripts/build/kernel_linux.sh b/scripts/build/kernel_linux.sh
index a272b1f3..07005e0c 100644
--- a/scripts/build/kernel_linux.sh
+++ b/scripts/build/kernel_linux.sh
@@ -13,11 +13,8 @@ do_print_filename() {
 # Download the kernel
 do_kernel_get() {
     if [ "${CT_KERNEL_LINUX_HEADERS_USE_CUSTOM_DIR}" != "y" ]; then
-        CT_GetFile "${CT_KERNEL_FILE}"                                  \
-                   ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6           \
-                   ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4           \
-                   ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.2           \
-                   ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing   \
+        CT_GetFile "${CT_KERNEL_FILE}"                                                  \
+                   {ftp,http}://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.{6{,/testing},4,2}   \
                    http://ep09.pld-linux.org/~mmazur/linux-libc-headers
     fi
     return 0
diff --git a/scripts/build/libc_glibc.sh b/scripts/build/libc_glibc.sh
index 0040a853..d607b3b9 100644
--- a/scripts/build/libc_glibc.sh
+++ b/scripts/build/libc_glibc.sh
@@ -17,13 +17,13 @@ do_libc_get() {
     # Ah! Not all GNU folks seem stupid. All glibc releases are in the same
     # directory. Good. Alas, there is no snapshot there. I'll deal with them
     # later on... :-/
-    CT_GetFile "${CT_LIBC_FILE}" ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glibc
+    CT_GetFile "${CT_LIBC_FILE}" {ftp,http}://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glibc
 
     # C library addons
     for addon in `do_libc_add_ons_list " "`; do
         # NPTL addon is not to be downloaded, in any case
         [ "${addon}" = "nptl" ] && continue || true
-        CT_GetFile "${CT_LIBC}-${addon}-${CT_LIBC_VERSION}" ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glibc
+        CT_GetFile "${CT_LIBC}-${addon}-${CT_LIBC_VERSION}" {ftp,http}://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glibc
     done
 
     return 0
diff --git a/scripts/build/libc_uClibc.sh b/scripts/build/libc_uClibc.sh
index af06e3c9..d4cb416d 100644
--- a/scripts/build/libc_uClibc.sh
+++ b/scripts/build/libc_uClibc.sh
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ do_print_filename() {
 
 # Download uClibc
 do_libc_get() {
-	libc_src="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads
+    libc_src="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads
               http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/snapshots
               http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/old-releases"
     # For uClibc, we have almost every thing: releases, and snapshots