[CMake] ctest: Empty reply from server

[Bill Hoffman]

On 8/17/2010 10:03 AM, Tyler Roscoe wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 03:35:02PM +0200, Lorenzo Natale wrote:
>> Submit files (using http)
>>     Using HTTP submit method
>>     Drop site:[..]
>> Error when uploading file: [...]/20100816-2200/Build.xml
>>     Error message was: Empty reply from server
>
> I agree that CDash doesn't always produce the most helpful error
> messages (submit to a dashboard that's not there and nothing in the
> chain complains! your build just never arrives anywhere). However,
> there's not a lot of detail here.
>
> Does your Build.xml look correct? Are there any relevant messages in the
> web server logs?

We have been working quite a bit on making ctest/CDash more robust.  If 
you use git master ctest and svn CDash it should give more information, 
and even retry if it fails.

-Bill