mxe/mxe — pull request #378 by kenrestivo (2014-04-14 06:19:20+00:00)
Title: gnu.org appears to be http not ftp. ftp fails, http does not.

The package script uses ftp, but it was failing to download. The website for GCC provides an http link, so perhaps HTTP would be more reliable/cacheable/reachable-- it was for me.