[Slackbuilds-users] Fwd: yajl source link broken

[Donald Allen]

On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Niels Horn <niels.horn at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Donald Allen <donaldcallen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > This is still broken.
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Donald Allen <donaldcallen at gmail.com>
> > Date: Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 8:41 AM
> > Subject: yajl source link broken
> > To: slackbuilds-users at slackbuilds.org, easuter at gmail.com
> >
> >
> > Following the link to the source file on the page
> > http://slackbuilds.org/repository/13.37/libraries/yajl/
> > results in a "404 Not Found" error.
> > /Don Allen
> >
>
> Indeed it is and I could not find a working direct link to the tarball.
> It can be found on github though.
>

Yes -- I found it there, too, and was able to get the package built.

>
> I'm copying the maintainer - maybe he knows a better link to the tarball.
>

Why can't the link on
http://slackbuilds.org/repository/13.37/libraries/yajl/ simply be changed to
point to

http://github.com/lloyd/yajl/tarball/2.0.1/lloyd-yajl-2.0.1-0-gf4b2b1a.tar.gz
 ??

That's the file I downloaded. Works fine.

/Don

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