[CMake] Setting CTEST_BUILD_NAME from cmake config

[David Cole]

On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Michele Dolfi <dolfimeth at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 3:24 PM, David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com>wrote:
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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!).
>>> >
>>>
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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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> So, since the basic config option (e.g. compiler, in case I want to test
> more) has to be set in the ctest -S script, I can just use this info to
> generate the name from there?
> In my case I would like to put some library version number in the
> BUILDNAME, in order to easily filter the results in the dashboard. Doing it
> in the ctest -S means invoking find_library(), i.e. perming the config in
> two different places.
>
>
> Michele
>


Well, maybe you *should* do it in the CMakeLists then. You can't run
find_library in a ctest -S script.
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