[Dart] one problem left with Nightly Builds: always 0 cvs updates

[David Cole]

We see "0 updates" a lot on machines that run more than one dashboard on 
a given source tree. Only the first nightly dashboard to run on a 
machine for the given source directory tree shows the real number of 
updated files.

HTH,
David


Miller, James V (GE, Research) wrote:

>Alex, 
>
>The update should capture any code changes that occurred in the 24 hours previous
>to the (last) NIGHTLY_START_TIME.  The time between the NIGHTLY_START_TIME and the 
>cron job should largely be irrelevant.  In fact, any changes checked in during this
>30 minute period should only appear on the nightly for the next day.
>
>Note that if your source tree has already been updated (for instance, if you manually
>did a cvs update in the tree), then the Nightly build will have nothing to update.
>We usually use a separate source/build tree for testing from our usually development
>trees.
>
>Can you try do a 
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>>ctest -V -D Nightly
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>from your build tree?
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>This will print out information about how ctest is determining the time to use for the
>update command.
>
>Jim
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: dart-bounces+millerjv=crd.ge.com at public.kitware.com
>[mailto:dart-bounces+millerjv=crd.ge.com at public.kitware.com]On Behalf Of
>Alexander Neundorf
>Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 7:37 AM
>To: dart at public.kitware.com
>Subject: [Dart] one problem left with Nightly Builds: always 0 cvs
>updates
>
>
>Hi,
>
>at first I had the problem that when my cron job started which does "make Nightly" it always pulled the sources from one day before.
>Now the cronjob starts at 2:30 am german time.
>I put the following in my CMakeLists.txt:
>
>SET(NIGHTLY_START_TIME "00:01:00 GMT")
>
>Now this works good so far, i.e. it builds everyday with the current sources. 
>The only problem left now is that the "Update" column for the Nightly Builds always shows a "0".
>I guess this is also related to the date (since there have been 0 updates between NIGHTLY_START_TIME and the time when the cron job starts.
>The directory where the nightly build happens is cleared everytime before the build starts. Is this ok ?
>
>Any hints why I see "0 Updates" ?
>
>Bye
>Alex
>
>P.S. unit tests (using CxxTest) are also already working, now I'd like to integrate KWStyle, but haven't found docs yet...
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