[CMake] ExternalProject_Add and proxy

[D. Barbier]

On 2015-10-21 14:58 GMT+02:00 Cedric Doucet wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I try to download a library with ExternalProject_Add.
> The URL is correct and the CMake script works well, except when there is a
> proxy to define.
>
> The URL is : http://bitbucket.org/eigen/eigen/get/3.2.4.tar.gz
>
> After having set
>
> http_proxy=http://proxy.name.fr:1234
> https_proxy=https://proxy.name.fr:1234
>
> I can download the archive with: wget
> http://bitbucket.org/eigen/eigen/get/3.2.4.tar.gz

Hello,

Since you do not provide login/password to your proxy, it is stored
elsewhere, either in ~/.netrc or ~/.wgetrc.
Delete these files and you will encounter the same problem.

> But when I type 'make' to use the ExternalProject_Add command, I get (after
> some minutes):
> ===========================================================================
> [ 44%] Performing download step (download, verify and extract) for 'eigen'
> -- downloading...
>      src='http://bitbucket.org/eigen/eigen/get/3.2.4.tar.gz'
>
> dst='/home/cdoucet/Documents/soutien/matherials/simol/build/third-party/eigen/download/3.2.4.tar.gz'
>      timeout='none'
> CMake Error at stamp/download-eigen.cmake:19 (message):
>   error: downloading 'http://bitbucket.org/eigen/eigen/get/3.2.4.tar.gz'
>   failed
[...]

Try with
  http_proxy=http://your_login:your_password@proxy.name.fr:1234

Denis