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

Thu Jun 4 13:27:13 EDT 2009

Thanks for the quick assistance, David. No joy though...

> 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.

Ah, ok. I did this. I don't remember reading a direction like this
while setting up the project, but may have missed it.

> 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:
> ...
> All of the variables begin with CTEST_....

Ah-ha... The example CTestConfig.cmake in "Mastering Cmake" pg 195
don't have the CTEST_ prefixes either.

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

Ok, I did this. The file generated is:

## This file should be placed in the root directory of your project.
## Then modify the CMakeLists.txt file in the root directory of your
## project to incorporate the testing dashboard.
## # The following are required to uses Dart and the Cdash dashboard
##   ENABLE_TESTING()
##   INCLUDE(CTest)
set(CTEST_PROJECT_NAME "Qpid%20C++")
set(CTEST_NIGHTLY_START_TIME "00:00:00 EST")

set(CTEST_DROP_METHOD "http")
set(CTEST_DROP_SITE "www.riverace.com")
set(CTEST_DROP_LOCATION
"/CDash-1.4.2/submit.php?project=Qpid%2520C%2B%2B")
set(CTEST_DROP_SITE_CDASH TRUE)

I put this in the top-level source directory and retried. This time
with -VV:

[shuston at smokey cpp]$ ctest -VV -S ~/trunk_nightly.cmake
* Extra verbosity turned on
Reading Script: /home/shuston/trunk_nightly.cmake
Run ctest command:
"/home/shuston/Desktop/cmake-2.6.2-Linux-i386/bin/ctest" -D Nightly
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.
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.

I'm not sure it's even seeing the CTestConfig.cmake file - after the
run above, I added a junk line to the top of the file and re-ran
ctest... No change in output. I was thinking it should complain about
the junk in the file.

What do you think?

Thanks,
-Steve

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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