[CMake] ctest and gcov and cdash

[Leif Walsh]

Apologies. In checking again, these flags were not being passed during the compile phase. I'll go fix that and bump this if it still doesn't work. 

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On May 2, 2012, at 17:32, Leif Walsh <leif.walsh at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I can't find any documentation that describes gcov integration with ctest in depth, though there seems to be a fair amount of integration with it, as well as with cdash.
> 
> As far as I can tell, you're supposed to compile with -fprofile-arcs -ftest-coverage -lgcov and then run all your tests somehow that they generate .gcda and/or .gcno files, which ctest -D ExperimentalCoverage and the like can then pick up, parse, and do something useful with.  My problem is with step 2, running the tests (I think).
> 
> I compile with those flags in CMAKE_C_FLAGS and CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS and everything seems to go ok.  I then run the tests with ctest.  I don't see any gcov files get generated anywhere, and I don't know what else to try.
> 
> Can anyone help, with words or links?
> 
> -- 
> Cheers,
> Leif
>