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0007867CMakeCTestpublic2008-10-28 04:392016-06-10 14:30
ReporterRolf Eike Beer 
Assigned ToKitware Robot 
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityalways
StatusclosedResolutionmoved 
PlatformOSOS Version
Product VersionCMake-2-6 
Target VersionFixed in Version 
Summary0007867: "Compiler Name" and "Compiler Version" are always unknown
DescriptionCTest does not write compiler information into it's test result files so CDash always shows them as unknown.
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(0014070)
Bill Hoffman (manager)
2008-11-08 17:34

ctest does not know the compiler or compiler version. That is something cmake knows. ctest could configure a project that used several different compilers. This information needs to come out of the build maybe... I am not sure how we can get it to CDash.
(0019265)
Rolf Eike Beer (developer)
2010-01-22 08:31

In CMake 2.8.0 the compiler name is set to the path of the compiler binary. At the beginning of the configuration CMake prints like "The C compiler identification is MSVC" or "... GNU", that's the information I would expect here. And for the version it's what "gcc --version" or the first line of "cl.exe" spits out.
(0020757)
Rolf Eike Beer (developer)
2010-05-17 04:56

This could come e.g. from Modules/Platform/Windows-cl.cmake

If you run cl.exe without any arguments you get something like this in the first line:

Microsoft (R) C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 16.00.30319.01 for x64

Everything before the "Version" should be put into "Compiler Name", everything else into "Compiler Version". Shouldn't be too hard to put it in e.g. CMAKE_COMPILER_NAME_STRING and CMAKE_COMPILER_VERSION_STRING.

The same could then go also to a gcc/g++ module and parse the first line of "gcc --version". There the split is the space after the first closing brace, everything before is name (e.g. "g++ (GCC)", "g++ (Gentoo 4.3.4 p1.0, pie-10.1.5)", or "g++ (SUSE Linux)" which are the three version I have at hand), everything else is the version.
(0022018)
David Cole (manager)
2010-08-31 11:15

We will not be addressing this for the upcoming CMake 2.8.3 release.
(0031020)
Rolf Eike Beer (developer)
2012-09-12 15:59

CMake has all the knowledge by now. So how do we get this into CTest and it's XML?
(0031022)
David Cole (manager)
2012-09-12 17:04

Site name and BuildName are communicated from CMake to CTest via the configured file DartConfiguration.tcl (which is not for Dart anymore, and it is also not tcl, but that's a separate issue...)

I would imagine the easiest way to do this would be to add entries in there (if they're not already there) that are configured based on the new variables and then add code into ctest that reads/writes those values into the appropriate XML files that are sent to CDash.

Bill's point from the earlier note is still valid, though ("ctest could configure a project that used several different compilers"), and CDash does not deal with the possibility of multiple values being sent in these fields.

We could set them to the one compiler used by the top level project, though, and that would probably be what 90%+ of users would expect.
(0037472)
Sean McBride (reporter)
2014-12-16 17:53

Just wanted to +1 this issue. :)

As this hasn't been fixed in 6 years, another solution is to just remove from CDash this display entirely.
(0041458)
Kitware Robot (administrator)
2016-06-10 14:27

Resolving issue as `moved`.

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 Issue History
Date Modified Username Field Change
2008-10-28 04:39 Rolf Eike Beer New Issue
2008-11-08 17:32 Bill Hoffman Status new => assigned
2008-11-08 17:32 Bill Hoffman Assigned To => Julien Jomier
2008-11-08 17:34 Bill Hoffman Note Added: 0014070
2010-01-22 08:31 Rolf Eike Beer Note Added: 0019265
2010-05-17 04:56 Rolf Eike Beer Note Added: 0020757
2010-08-31 11:15 David Cole Note Added: 0022018
2010-12-08 10:36 David Cole Assigned To Julien Jomier => David Cole
2011-02-03 17:20 David Cole Assigned To David Cole =>
2011-02-03 17:20 David Cole Status assigned => acknowledged
2011-02-09 13:39 David Cole Status acknowledged => backlog
2012-09-12 15:59 Rolf Eike Beer Note Added: 0031020
2012-09-12 17:04 David Cole Note Added: 0031022
2014-12-16 17:53 Sean McBride Note Added: 0037472
2016-06-10 14:27 Kitware Robot Note Added: 0041458
2016-06-10 14:27 Kitware Robot Status backlog => resolved
2016-06-10 14:27 Kitware Robot Resolution open => moved
2016-06-10 14:27 Kitware Robot Assigned To => Kitware Robot
2016-06-10 14:30 Kitware Robot Status resolved => closed


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