[CMake] CDash + Perforce

[Robert Dailey]

So basically because we use perforce, there is no way to use ctest?

I assume ctest does the following:
- Check out source code
- Configure CMake
- Generate CMake
- Initiate a build from generated targets

Is this correct? If so, it's the first step that code needs to be added for
to support perforce?

Is there a way to tell CTest to not check out source code and instead point
it to an existing working copy, that way I can perform the perforce
checkout externally via script? This would make for a decent workaround.

Thanks.

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Robert Dailey


On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 11:03 AM, David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com> wrote:

> And, to answer your initial question, no, perforce is not yet an
> officially supported version control system for use with ctest -S
> scripts and CDash.
>
> The ones that are include:
>  git
>  svn
>  cvs
>  hg
>  bzr
>
> Additional code needs to be added to both ctest and CDash in order to
> support new version control systems.
>
>
> HTH,
> David
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 12:01 PM, David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com>
> wrote:
> > CDash is just a web app / server app. It does not do builds, it just
> > collects information from clients that submit to it, and displays
> > results.
> >
> > Client machines can run ctest -S scripts to submit build/test results
> > to a CDash dashboard.
> >
> > Look at the notes attached to a typical CMake dashboard for an example
> > of how a client machine must be set up to submit to the CDash server.
> >
> > For example, this one:
> >
> >  http://www.cdash.org/CDash/viewNotes.php?buildid=1730072
> >
> > On our machine, dashmacmini5.kitware, a script runs this command with
> > the script shown at the above link:
> >
> >  ctest -S
> ${HOME}/Dashboards/DashboardScripts/dashmacmini5_cmake_clang.cmake
> > -O ${HOME}/Dashboards/Logs/dashmacmini5_cmake_clang.log
> >
> >
> > HTH,
> > David
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Robert Dailey <rcdailey at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> Seems like the web viewer link is optional, I created the project
> without
> >> it.
> >> However, I see the default build groups but how do I add a build? I
> suppose
> >> CDash needs to know how to do a checkout of source code from Perforce?
> I'm
> >> really confused on what to do next...
> >>
> >> ---------
> >> Robert Dailey
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Robert Dailey <rcdailey at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Is it possible to use CDash with perforce as our SCM?
> >>> During the CDash installation, it is asking me for a "Repository
> >>> ViewerURL", and from the drop down it doesn't show perforce as a valid
> item
> >>> in the list. Can this step be skipped or is there some way to make
> perforce
> >>> work with this? I believe perforce's web viewer is P4Web.
> >>> Thanks.
> >>>
> >>> ---------
> >>> Robert Dailey
> >>
> >>
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