[cmake-developers] Unexpected bad status for file DOWNLOAD for http://*.xz URLs

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2013-07-12 01:49+0200 Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Sorry, the example was wrong (copy & paste from a bad revision). This is
> the right one:
>
>      ExternalProject_Add( graphicsmagick
> 	    DOWNLOAD_NAME graphicsmagick.exe
> 	    DOWNLOAD_DIR ${WINST_BASEDIR}/downloads
> 	    URL ${graphicsmagick_URL}
> 	    URL_MD5 ${graphicsmagick_MD5}*	    EXTRACT_COMMAND
> <DOWNLOAD_DIR>graphicsmagick.exe /VERYSILENT /NORESTART
> /DIR=\"${WINST_PREFIX}/bin\" /NOICONS /SP-*
> 	    LOG_DOWNLOAD 1
> 	    LOG_UPDATE 1
> 	    LOG_CONFIGURE 1
> 	    LOG_BUILD 1
> 	    LOG_TEST 1
> 	    LOG_INSTALL 1
> 	    )

Hi Paul:

I don't think I will need your enhancement for the particular needs of
the build_projects project, but my feeling is that ExternalProject
is already such a useful and powerful module that it is sure to
attract additional enhancements like yours.

But it also appears that CMake commands such as file(DOWNLOAD ... that
are used by the ExternalProject module need some work (e.g., for
*.tar.xz files that are downloaded by file(DOWNLOAD... ).

So I will return to that topic in the next post.

Alan
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