[CMake] CMake : Setting up a continuous dashboard

[Mathieu Malaterre]

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 4:10 AM, Bill Hoffman<bill.hoffman at kitware.com> wrote:
> Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
>>
>> Hi there,
>>
>>  I do not understand why the following ctest script (*) does not
>> work. I am not seeing the updated files on my cdash server
>>
>> (*)
>> SET(CTEST_CHECKOUT_COMMAND              "${CTEST_UPDATE_COMMAND} co
>> https://path/to/csmtk/ csmtk")
>>
>> CTEST_EMPTY_BINARY_DIRECTORY(${CTEST_BINARY_DIRECTORY})
>> FILE(WRITE "${CTEST_BINARY_DIRECTORY}/CMakeCache.txt"
>> "
>> SITE:STRING=${CTEST_SITE}
>> BUILDNAME:STRING=${CTEST_BUILD_NAME}
>> CMAKE_GENERATOR:INTERNAL=Unix Makefiles
>> ")
>> SET(CTEST_CONTINUOUS_DURATION 900)
>> SET(CTEST_CONTINUOUS_MINIMUM_INTERVAL 10)
>> SET(CTEST_START_WITH_EMPTY_BINARY_DIRECTORY_ONCE TRUE)
>>
>> CTEST_START(Continuous)
>> CTEST_UPDATE(SOURCE "${CTEST_SOURCE_DIRECTORY}" RETURN_VALUE res)
>> CTEST_CONFIGURE(BUILD "${CTEST_BINARY_DIRECTORY}" RETURN_VALUE res)
>> CTEST_BUILD(BUILD "${CTEST_BINARY_DIRECTORY}" RETURN_VALUE res)
>> CTEST_TEST(BUILD "${CTEST_BINARY_DIRECTORY}" RETURN_VALUE res)
>> CTEST_COVERAGE(BUILD "${CTEST_BINARY_DIRECTORY}" RETURN_VALUE res)
>> CTEST_SUBMIT(RETURN_VALUE res)
>>
>>
>>
> You are mixing old and new style scripts.  CTEST_CONTINUOUS_DURATION is not
> used in the new style scripts.  Instead, you use while, something like this:
>
> while (${CTEST_ELAPSED_TIME} LESS 36000)
>    set (START_TIME ${CTEST_ELAPSED_TIME})
>  ctest_start (Continuous)
>   ....
>   ctest_sleep( ${START_TIME} 300 ${CTEST_ELAPSED_TIME})
> endwhile()



I could not find any documentation on the wiki, so I simply created a
new section and moved the existing one to 'old style':

http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/CMake_Scripting_Of_CTest#Continuous_Builds_.28new_Style.29

Thanks !
-- 
Mathieu