[CMake] How to set CTEST_BUILD_NAME

[Donald MacQueen [|]]

Hi Xavier,

That worked like a charm!

Thanks very much.

Thanks too to Craig for the link. I had not seen that before.

On 12/16/2018 6:15 PM, Xavier Besseron wrote:
> Hi Donald,
> For my project, I do it this way.
> In my CMakeLists.txt, I first set the variable BUILDNAME in cache 
> before calling `include(CTest)`.
>
>     #defineBUILDNAME,usedtosubmitjobstoCDash
>
>     set(BUILDNAME"Whatever you want"CACHESTRING""FORCE)
>
>     #ThismustbecalledafterSITEandBUILDNAMEvariablesareset
>
>     include(CTest)
>
> I hope this will work for you.
> Best regards,
> Xavier
>
> On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 9:22 PM Craig Scott <craig.scott at crascit.com 
> <mailto:craig.scott at crascit.com>> wrote:
>
>
>
>     On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 6:41 AM Donald MacQueen [|]
>     <dmacq at instantiations.com <mailto:dmacq at instantiations.com>> wrote:
>
>         I want to do something like set(CTEST_BUILD_NAME
>         {CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME}_someLocalVariable)
>
>         I tried putting this ^^ in CTestConfig.cmake with no luck.
>
>         I searched the docs and the archives from 2014 to the present and
>         nothing jumped out at me.
>
>         2) Is there a list of what can be set/used in CTestConfig.cmake?
>
>
>     The variables are not all collected together conveniently, but the
>     Dashboard Client section
>     <https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/manual/ctest.1.html#dashboard-client-configuration>
>     of the ctest command does list the supported variables associated
>     with each command. It would seem like setting CTEST_BUILD_NAME
>     should work based on those docs, so perhaps if you could point us
>     as a minimal complete example which demonstrates your problem,
>     that might give more clues as to what's happening for you.
>
>
>     -- 
>     Craig Scott
>     Melbourne, Australia
>     https://crascit.com
>
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>
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>
>
>
> -- 
> Dr Xavier BESSERON
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>
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