[CMake] multicore interix'en testing

[Markus Duft]

Bill Hoffman wrote:
> Markus Duft wrote:
>> Bill Hoffman wrote:
>>> I did not want to get into the technical thread on this issue, so I
>>> created a new message.  Markus, will you be able to run a dashboard for
>>> this platform?  It is sort of a requirement for accepting patches like
>>> this into CMake.  Otherwise, we are sure to break things in the future
>>> and not notice it.   Once we get all the tests passing we can help you
>>> setup a CDash client to submit nightly builds.
>>
>> my boss isn't quite happy with running nightly builds for another
> But he is happy to use open source software from that company??
>> company... but still i guess i'll be running cdash in a vm here, since i
>> _want_ interix support upstream ;). am i right that the cdash client
>> checks out a copy, builds, tests and then reports the results to you
>> (over http?)? so there is no need for any inbound connections? i'll be
>> behind proxy/firewall/etc... is this configuration possible?
>>
> Yes, ctest uses http put, and there are no inbound connections.   If you
> have a build tree, you can run make Experimental to see if it will work
> for you.   I can then send you a better dashboard script for doing the
> nightly once that is working.  Thanks.

btw, any chance to integrate this with buildbot? i have buildbot running
already on the machines in question for our own sw, so it would be cool
from a resource management POV.

Cheers, and thanks, Markus

> 
> -Bill