Sorry, but I have to keep complaining about the documentation. Please
excuse the ranting.
Just one example from the manual:
ctest --build-options: Add extra options to the build step.
This option must be the last option with the exception of
--test-command
End of available information.
I have not been able to figure out which CTEST_* variable these options
end up in, or how I could make them actually *affect* the build.
I am also still looking for a reference of variables used by CTest.
Quite obviously it is required to set both CTEST_SOURCE_DIRECTORY and
CTEST_BINARY_DIRECTORY in your script, as CTest keeps telling you if
you
try to execute an empty script. I wonder if it wouldn't be easier if
CTest
would assume the current directory as BINARY_DIR and the script
directory
as SOURCE_DIR by default, but that might be just me.
That I have to set CTEST_COMMAND manually when I obviously just called
the
executable, conveniently passing a working invocation in argv[0]).
Strange.
CTEST_SITE / CTEST_BUILD_NAME constitute the identification sent to the
CDash server, as I found out perusing some example scripts on the Wiki,
none of which really explaining what is done. Nice, but why ain't I
told
in plain English?
As SVN user, I have to set CTEST_CHECKOUT_COMMAND myself (to something
resembling "svn checkout ${MY_REPOSITORY} ${CTEST_SOURCE_DIRECTORY}".
Figured it out, works. But apparently CTEST_UPDATE_COMMAND is something
else entirely, as CTest insists on appending "update --non-interactive"
on its own accord...
It is possible to trial & error your way around all this, but I would
REALLY prefer to have a reference list, telling me which features I
might
be missing, or how I should escape quotation marks and semicolons in a
-DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH= statement. Or why a statement that works when
given
as CTEST_CONFIGURE_COMMAND fails when passed in ctest_configure(
OPTIONS ).
Hence, again my question: Is the man page and the half-dozen pages in
the
Wiki really all there is in freely available documentation on CTest?
Regards,
--
Martin Baute
[email protected]
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