[CMake] passing a URL to cmake on the command line

[Szilárd Páll]

Hi,

My bad, looks like we had an offending line in our CMake scripts, something like

set(MY_URL
    "http://default-url.com/foobar.tar.gz" CACHE PATH
    "URL from where to download")

The PATH type seems to have caused the issue rather than the mechanism
of passing the URL to on the bash command line to cmake.

Thanks for the quick feedback!

Cheers,
--
Szilárd


On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 5:44 PM, Haocheng Liu <haocheng.liu at kitware.com> wrote:
> Hi Szilard,
>
> I tried it in CMake 3.10 and it works fine(No slash is dropped).  Which
> version of CMake are you using?
>
> On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 11:24 AM, Szilárd Páll <sin.pecado at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to pass a URL (that's used in ExternalProject_Add), and I'm
>> having trouble convincing bash + cmake to cooperate. No matter what
>> I've done, one fo the "/" gets dropped from "http://".
>>
>> Any ideas how can I construct an invocation similar to the one below
>> that will actually work?
>>
>> cmake . -DMY_CUSTOM_URL='http://my-server.com/foobar.tar.gz'
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> --
>> Szilárd
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