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

[Haocheng Liu]

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,
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> Szilárd
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Best regards
Haocheng

Haocheng LIU
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