Often Linux systems are shipped with wget(1) by default (and no curl).
Many BSDs, macOS, and e.g. some Linux minimal/container images
comes with curl(1) (and no wget).
Attempting to download with curl if wget is not available increases
the likelihood for this to succeed.
test_databases := $(dir)/database-v1.tar.xz
%.tar.xz:
- wget -nv -O $@ ${TEST_DATABASE_MIRROR}/$(notdir $@);
+ @exec 1>&2 ;\
+ if command -v wget >/dev/null ;\
+ then set -x; wget -nv -O $@ ${TEST_DATABASE_MIRROR}/$(notdir $@) ;\
+ elif command -v curl >/dev/null ;\
+ then set -x; curl -L -s -o $@ ${TEST_DATABASE_MIRROR}/$(notdir $@) ;\
+ else echo Cannot fetch databases, no wget nor curl available; exit 1 ;\
+ fi
download-test-databases: ${test_databases}