On 02/26/2013 10:59 AM, Marc Kleine-Budde wrote:
> On 02/26/2013 10:20 AM, [email protected] wrote:
>> Good day, everyone!
>>
>> When using ptxdist to "get" a package with an URL with semicolons in it, 
>> for example a snapshot from a gitweb repo, anything after the first 
>> semicolon
>> is interpreted as options to wget. Unfortunately I was unable to find a 
>> quoting
>> style that prevented this while still handing over a usable URL to wget:
>>
>> An example for an URL I want to use:
>> http://git.xilinx.com/?p=linux-xlnx.git;a=snapshot;h=04d9378881401e71f83b8b4fea0abd71d33b4052;sf=tgz
>>
>> I'm using ptxdist 2013.01.90 and copied the original kernel.make to my 
>> project
>> rules, with a custom KERNEL_URL. I tried these variations, and got the 
>> following
>> (slightly cleaned) results:
>>
>> "Naive":
>> KERNEL_URL              := 
>> http://git.xilinx.com/?p=linux-xlnx.git;a=snapshot;h=04d9378881401e71f83b8b4fea0abd71d33b4052;sf=tgz
>>
>> $ ptxdist-2013.01.90 print KERNEL_URL
>> http://git.xilinx.com/?p=linux-xlnx.git;a=snapshot;h=04d9378881401e71f83b8b4fea0abd71d33b4052;sf=tgz
>> $ ptxdist-2013.01.90 get kernel
>> ptxdist: error: invalid option 'a=snapshot' to ptxd_make_get_http
>>
>>
>> "Doublequoting":
>> KERNEL_URL              := 
>> "http://git.xilinx.com/?p=linux-xlnx.git;a=snapshot;h=04d9378881401e71f83b8b4fea0abd71d33b4052;sf=tgz";
>>
>> $ ptxdist-2013.01.90 print KERNEL_URL
>> http://git.xilinx.com/?p=linux-xlnx.git
>> (This downloads an obviously unwanted HTML index page)
>>
>>
>> "Singlequoting":
>> KERNEL_URL              := 
>> 'http://git.xilinx.com/?p=linux-xlnx.git;a=snapshot;h=04d9378881401e71f83b8b4fea0abd71d33b4052;sf=tgz'
>>
>> $ ptxdist-2013.01.90 print KERNEL_URL
>> 'http://git.xilinx.com/?p=linux-xlnx.git;a=snapshot;h=04d9378881401e71f83b8b4fea0abd71d33b4052;sf=tgz'
>> $ ptxdist-2013.01.90 get kernel
>> Could not download package
>> URL: 
>> 'http://git.xilinx.com/?p=linux-xlnx.git;a=snapshot;h=04d9378881401e71f83b8b4fea0abd71d33b4052;sf=tgz'
>>
>>
>> Using backslashes to escape the semicolons does not work, either, same 
>> behaviour
>> as in "Naive".
>>
>> Using urlencoding as in 
>> KERNEL_URL              := 
>> http://git.xilinx.com/?p=linux-xlnx.git%3Ba=snapshot%3Bh=04d9378881401e71f83b8b4fea0abd71d33b4052%3Bsf=tgz
>> would technically work with ptxdist, but gitweb doesn't seem to decode 
>> this,
>>  and throws a 404, which seems broken by itself. :(
>>
>> Does anybody have a suggestion how to quote semicolons in my URL properly,
>> lest they are passed literally to wget instead of being split into 
>> options?
>> Is there some $(call verbatim,FOO) macro, perchance?
> 
> What about using %3B instead of ;
> http://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/ref_urlencode.asp

Doh - you tried already.

Marc
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