[Buildroot] Connection refused error

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com
Wed Oct 17 06:43:18 UTC 2018


Hello,

On Tue, 16 Oct 2018 16:27:23 -0700, Shaikat Hossain wrote:
> I am receiving the following error when I run make on the Erpiam project I
> am building from Github:
> 
> "
> shaikat at shaikat-VirtualBox:~/erpiam$ make
> >>> host-expat 2.2.5 Downloading  
> --2018-10-16 15:59:34--
> http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/expat/expat/2.2.5/expat-2.2.5.tar.bz2
> Connecting to 127.0.0.1:8080... failed: Connection refused.

You probably have some wrong http_proxy variable: it tries to connect
to 127.0.0.1 (i.e localhost) on port 8080. This seems to have nothing to
do with Buildroot, but rather with a broken wget configuration on your
system.

Best regards,

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com


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