[vtk-developers] Dashboard hasn't shown "diff" images since CMake 2.8

[David Gobbi]

I've reported the bug.

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 8:33 AM, David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com> wrote:
> I bet if you get rid of the other error log spew that the problem "goes
> away"...
> But still, something in ctest must have changed to trigger this.
> I don't have time to investigate quickly and immediately, but please log a
> bug and somebody will get to it, hopefully in time for the *next* cmake
> release. (Not the impending 2.8.3 release, but the next one...)
>
> Thanks,
> David C.
>
> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:05 AM, David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Also interesting, I looked at cherry.hooperlab on the dashboard, and
>> found one test that is finding the diff images:
>> http://www.cdash.org/CDash/testDetails.php?test=69308655&build=752172
>>
>> But the spiderplot test, strangely enough, isn't:
>> http://www.cdash.org/CDash/testDetails.php?test=69308021&build=752172
>>
>> So ctest-2.8 might just be finicky about some of VTK's cmake scripts.
>>
>>  David
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 7:58 AM, Dave Partyka <dave.partyka at kitware.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Very interesting,
>> > I just reproduced this on my machine using two experimental dashboards,
>> > just
>> > switching between 2.6.4 and 2.8.2 as the driving ctest.
>> >
>> > http://www.cdash.org/CDash/index.php?project=VTK&date=2010-10-16#Experimental
>> > 2.8.2
>> > http://www.cdash.org/CDash/viewTest.php?onlyfailed&buildid=750970
>> > 2.6.4
>> > http://www.cdash.org/CDash/viewTest.php?onlyfailed&buildid=750967
>> > I will pester the CMake guys.
>> >
>> > On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 4:07 PM, David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> When a dashboard fails due to an image difference, errors like the
>> >> following are given instead of the actual diff image being shown:
>> >>
>> >> File ../../../Testing/Temporary/TestSpiderPlotActor.png not found
>> >> File ../../../Testing/Temporary/TestSpiderPlotActor.diff.png not found
>> >>
>> >> For example, see yesterday's dashboard:
>> >> http://www.cdash.org/CDash/testDetails.php?test=69080454&build=750165
>> >>
>> >> When I run ctest-2.8 on my home machine, I see these same errors.
>> >> But with ctest-2.6, the image difference is correctly reported.
>> >>
>> >> So ctest-2.8 is not finding or submitting the .png files that the tests
>> >> produce.
>> >> Is this an error with ctest or an error within VTK?
>> >>
>> >>  David
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