[CMake] Trouble starting ctest run with intention of reporting to dashboard

[David Cole]

After setting up the project on the CDash server, the project administrator
should be able to download the CTestConfig.cmake from CDash to put in the
source tree. Your CTestConfig.cmake does not have the proper variable
definitions in it to work with CDash... for example, this is a snippet from
CTestConfig.cmake in the CMake source tree:

set(CTEST_PROJECT_NAME "CMake")
set(CTEST_NIGHTLY_START_TIME "21:00:00 EDT")

set(CTEST_DROP_METHOD "http")
set(CTEST_DROP_SITE "www.cdash.org")
set(CTEST_DROP_LOCATION "/CDash/submit.php?project=CMake")
set(CTEST_DROP_SITE_CDASH TRUE)

All of the variables begin with CTEST_....

CDash should generate the proper CTestConfig.cmake for you after the project
has been set up.

After logging in as project admin on CDash, go to the "Edit Project" page,
click on the "Miscellaneous" tab and then click on the link labelled
"Download CTestConfig:"


David



On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Steve Huston <shuston at riverace.com> wrote:

> Still have problems...
>
> On Linux, I cd to my main source dir...
>
> [shuston at smokey cpp]$ ctest -S ~/trunk_nightly.cmake
> Unable to run ctest:
> Cannot find file:
> /qpidbuilds/trunk/qpid/cpp/rhel5/DartConfiguration.tcl
>    Site:
>   Build name:
> WARNING: No nightly start time found please set in CTestConfig.cmake
> or DartConfig.cmake
> Problem initializing the dashboard.
>
>
> My CTestConfig.cmake is in the same directory I ran ctest from. It
> contains:
>
> [shuston at smokey cpp]$ cat CTestConfig.cmake
> # Submit build to riverace.com's CDash dashboard.
> SET(DROP_METHOD "http")
> SET(DROP_SITE "www.riverace.com")
> SET(DROP_LOCATION "CDash-1.4.2/submit.php?project=Qpid%20C++")
>
> set (NIGHTLY_START_TIME "00:00:00 EDT")
>
>
>
> My script (trunk_nightly.cmake) has:
>
> [shuston at smokey cpp]$ more ~/trunk_nightly.cmake
> # CMake/CTest script to run the daily/nightly build against trunk
>
> set (CTEST_SOURCE_DIRECTORY /qpidbuilds/trunk/qpid/cpp)
> set (CTEST_BINARY_DIRECTORY /qpidbuilds/trunk/qpid/cpp/rhel5)
> set (CTEST_COMMAND "\"${CTEST_EXECUTABLE_NAME}\" -D Nightly")
> set (CTEST_MAKE_COMMAND "\"${CMAKE_EXECUTABLE_NAME}\"")
>
> # Wipe the build dir to ensure a clean build
> set (CTEST_START_WITH_EMPTY_BINARY_DIRECTORY TRUE)
>
> # Set up initial cache entries to get started
> set (CTEST_INITIAL_CACHE "
>
> ... A bunch of settings that do end up in the cache file in a clean
> dir
> ")
>
> find_program(CTEST_SVN_COMMAND NAMES svn)
>
> set (CTEST_CVS_COMMAND "${CTEST_SVN_COMMAND}")
> set (CTEST_EXTRA_UPDATES_1 "C:/ace/exported/qpid/trunk/qpid/specs")
> set (CTEST_EXTRA_UPDATES_2 "C:/ace/exported/qpid/trunk/qpid/gentools")
>
> set (CTEST_ENVIRONMENT
> "LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${CTEST_BINARY_DIRECTORY}/src:/usr/lib}")
>
> set (NIGHTLY_START_TIME "00:00:00 EDT")
>
> --
> Steve Huston, Riverace Corporation
> shuston at riverace.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Cole [mailto:david.cole at kitware.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 11:11 AM
> To: Tyler Roscoe
> Cc: Steve Huston; cmake at cmake.org
> Subject: Re: [CMake] Trouble starting ctest run with intention of
> reporting to dashboard
>
>
> - Download the CTestConfig.cmake from CDash
> - Place it at the top of your source tree (next to your main
> CMakeLists.txt)
> - No need for the --ctest-config on the ctest command line
>
>
>
> Arrange it like that, and let us know if you still have problems.
>
>
>
>
> HTH,
> David
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Tyler Roscoe <tyler at cryptio.net>
> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 07:21:33PM -0400, Steve Huston wrote:
> > C:\ace\exported\qpid> ctest -S trunk_nightly.cmake --ctest-config
> > trunk\qpid\cpp\CTestConfig.cmake
> > Unable to run ctest:
> > Cannot find file:
> > C:/ace/exported/qpid/trunk/qpid/cpp/build/DartConfiguration.tcl
> >    Site:
> >    Build name:
> > WARNING: No nightly start time found please set in CTestConfig.cmake
> > or DartConfig.cmake
> > Problem initializing the dashboard.
> >
> > It doesn't seem to see my CTestConfig.cmake file - it has a
> > NIGHTLY_START_TIME in it.
>
>
> ctest might expect to find CTestConfig.cmake relative to your current
> binary directory rather than relative to your working directory. Maybe
> try fixing up your --ctest-config path or using an absolute path to
> your
> CTestConfig?
>
>
> > And what's DartConfiguration.tcl? It wasn't mentioned in the
> > "Mastering Cmake" book, and I'm trying to use cdash, not dart.
>
>
> Dart is the ancestor of CDash. CMake still writes out a
> DartConfiguration.tcl in every binary directory where include(CTest)
> has
> been run.
>
> So actually, make sure you are doing include(CTest) in your
> CMakeLists.
> Maybe this will fix your first problem as well?
>
> tyler
>
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