[CMake] Setting CTEST_BUILD_NAME from cmake config

[Leif Walsh]

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On Aug 24, 2012, at 9:24, David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com> wrote:

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> On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Leif Walsh <leif.walsh at gmail.com> wrote:
> I set the build name and site in my CMakeLists.txt before calling include(CTest) and it works.
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> But then you can only submit dashboards from one site with that CMakeLists file...? Anybody else submitting a dashboard for your project will pick up the same site and build names.
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> On Aug 24, 2012, at 9:01, Michele Dolfi <dolfimeth at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Hi all,
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> > 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.
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> > 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).
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> > 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!).
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> You should set those variables in the ctest -S script. A ctest -S script is typically coupled to the specific machine and build that it represents, so it's the right place to set those variables.
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> > Thanks a lot,
> > Michele
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