Re: [Boost-cmake] Labels for known failures

Subject: Re: [Boost-cmake] Labels for known failures
From: Michael Jackson (mike.jackson_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-05-19 11:34:58

On May 19, 2009, at 7:27 AM, David Cole wrote:

> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Brad King <brad.king_at_[hidden]>  
> wrote:
> Michael Jackson wrote:
>  thanks for the heads up about vxl. I took those 2 scripts and  
> adapted them for boost. I have since been able to submit an  
> experimental Dashboard to <http://www.cdash.org/CDashPublic/index.php?project=Boost 
> >. Look for ferb_at_[hidden] - the one that actually ran all the  
> tests.
>
> Nice.
>
>
> Also, if you click on the "site" you get some stats about the  
> machine that built boost.. All of which is either wrong or not  
> filled in. Are there some configuration options for this that need  
> to be set or is the parsing code for CTest not grepping OS X  
> machines correctly?
>
> IIRC it's parsed by code in the "Source/kwsys/SystemInformation.cxx"
> source in CMake:
>
> http://www.cmake.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/Source/kwsys/SystemInformation.cxx?revision=1.40&root=CMake&view=markup
>
>
> I looked at this issue briefly a couple months ago, but was too busy  
> to make a ctest fix at the time. The problem with SystemInformation  
> on Mac OSX is that the command lines used to gather the information  
> do not use a full path to execute the programs. We should do a  
> FIND_PROGRAM equivalent and use the full path to the programs  
> because the environment of running from a crontab entry does not  
> have the same PATH setup that a typical Mac terminal shell does...
>
> I just opened a cmake/ctest bug and assigned it to myself so it does  
> not get lost in the shuffle...
> http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=9050
>
> HTH,
> David
>

Patch attached to bug report.

Mike Jackson