[CMake] Setting initial CMake cache in extended Ctest scripting

[Bartlett, Roscoe A]

Bill,

How do you set CTEST_DROP_SITE and CTEST_DROP_LOCATION in the extended Ctest script?   I don't see an example of that in the script you point to below.

Thanks,

- Ross



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Hoffman [mailto:bill.hoffman at kitware.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 3:27 PM
> To: Bartlett, Roscoe A
> Cc: cmake at cmake.org
> Subject: Re: [CMake] Setting initial CMake cache in extended 
> Ctest scripting
> 
> Bartlett, Roscoe A wrote:
> > Hello,
> >  
> > How do I set the initial cache when using extended Ctest 
> scripting?  I 
> > tried setting the variable CTEST_INITIAL_CACHE but it seems to be 
> > getting ignored.  I just set:
> >  
> >    SET(CTEST_CMAKE_GENERATOR "Unix Makefiles")
> >  
> > along with CTEST_INITIAL_CACHE and I expected the 
> CTEST_COFNIGURE(...) 
> > command to just work.
> >  
> > Are there some examples out there of real extended Ctest 
> scripts that 
> > I could look at?  I tend not to trust what gets written in 
> untestable 
> > documentation.
> 
> We use something like this:
> 
> # this is the initial cache to use for the binary tree, be 
> careful to escape # any quotes inside of this string if you 
> use it file(WRITE "${CTEST_BINARY_DIRECTORY}/CMakeCache.txt" "
> SITE:STRING=${hostname}
> BUILDNAME:STRING=${BUILDNAME}
> DART_ROOT:PATH=
> CVSCOMMAND:FILEPATH=${CTEST_UPDATE_COMMAND}
> DROP_METHOD:STRING=http
> CTEST_TEST_CTEST:BOOL=1
> CVS_UPDATE_OPTIONS:STRING=${CTEST_UPDATE_OPTIONS}
> DART_TESTING_TIMEOUT:STRING=${CTEST_TEST_TIMEOUT}
> ")
> 
> Here is a script:
> http://www.cdash.org/CDash/viewNotes.php?buildid=231851
> 
> -Bill
> 
>