[CMake] Setting CTEST_BUILD_NAME from cmake config

[Leif Walsh]

I set the build name and site in my CMakeLists.txt before calling include(CTest) and it works. 

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On Aug 24, 2012, at 9:01, Michele Dolfi <dolfimeth at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I started using CMake, CTest and CDash, with the simple targets Nightly, Continuous and Experimental: it works very well.
> Now I would like to divide my project in subproject, so that a failure in compiling one small test is not affecting the full dashboard report. I read that ctest driver files are the way to go.
> 
> I quickly realized that include(CTest) was automatically setting many variables that are not there in a ctest driver script, i.e. CTEST_SITE, CTEST_BUILD_NAME. Specially for the latter one, I go used to tune the default naming, by looking at my cmake options and some library info (e.g. Boost version).
> 
> In the ctest script I use ctest_empty_binary_directory(), and I create a basic CMakeCache.txt to start the ctest_configure() afterwards. How can I read cmake options before ctest_start() (at this point I need BUILDNAME to be set!).
> 
> 
> Thanks a lot,
> Michele
> 
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