[cmake-developers] [CMake 0013169]: Internal misconfiguration leads to weird error messages: "Cannot create directory /Testing/Temporary"

Mantis Bug Tracker mantis at public.kitware.com
Wed Apr 25 14:28:39 EDT 2012


The following issue has been SUBMITTED. 
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http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=13169 
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Reported By:                askalex
Assigned To:                
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Project:                    CMake
Issue ID:                   13169
Category:                   CTest
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   tweak
Priority:                   low
Status:                     new
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Date Submitted:             2012-04-25 20:28 CEST
Last Modified:              2012-04-25 20:28 CEST
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Summary:                    Internal misconfiguration leads to weird error
messages: "Cannot create directory /Testing/Temporary"
Description: 
When calling "ctest_submit" under certain circumstances, the following error
message shows up:

Cannot create directory /Testing/Temporary
Cannot create log file: LastSubmit.log


 

Steps to Reproduce: 
In a unix shell do:

>% echo 'ctest_submit( FILES ctesttest.ctest )' > ctesttest.ctest
>% ctest -S ctesttest.ctest

If you do

>% ctest --debug -S ctesttest.ctest

the output gives the first hint where to start searching:
.../cmake-2.8.8/Source/cmCTest.cxx:899 Cannot create directory
/Testing/Temporary


Additional Information: 
Reading cmCTest.cxx shows, that the member this->BinaryDir seems not to be
initialized correctly (which is used as prefix in testingDir in
.../cmake-2.8.8/Source/cmCTest.cxx:899) .

Neither cmCTest::Initialize()  nor cmCTest::UpdateCTestConfiguration() seem to
get called to do the initialisation of this->BinaryDir when ctest is run in the
described way. For me it looks weird, that cmCTest::Initialize() is called in
only one case in cmCTest::Run() (line 2440) of nested if statements, but I
didn't try to understand this code in detail.

While this doesn't seem to do any harm in my use case it points to a bug which
may have more annoying effects in other cases.
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Issue History 
Date Modified    Username       Field                    Change               
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2012-04-25 20:28 askalex        New Issue                                    
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