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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Hi, I have a question about using CTest for automatic
nightly builds. Our company has been using CMake/CTest/CDash tools for about
a year now with no problems when the nightly build time was at 1am. We
moved the nightly build time to 9pm because now we have a lot more software to
build and many more compilers. We changed all the projects nightly start
time (on the CDash server) to 6pm to ensure the nightly builds show up for the
next day. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>However the problem we are seeing is that CTest_Update does
not seem to update to the head revision anymore, but rather seems to update to the
previous day’s revision? I have found a few posts suggesting that the
variable CTEST_NIGHTLY_START_TIME is not used anymore? Is this true?
All of our ctest config files had set this value to midnight because I think it
was required in older versions of CMake/CTest? Is it possible that this old
behavior/capability of using this client-side variable is still present and is
causing our svn update problem? From the output log of the svn update
command it appears that the nightly start time is affecting the svn update
operation to update to yesterday’s revision. Can I just remove the Set
(CTEST_NIGHTLY_START_TIME) command from our client update ctest scripts to fix
this problem? Will older versions of CMake require this variable to work?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Below is the log output of the CTest/CDash update script we
use to recursively update our repositories. You can see where the nightly
start time is set, and how the old revision number is newer than the new
revision number.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<pre><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>SetCTestConfiguration:SourceDirectory:N:/dsci/repo/common/scripts/CDashBuilder<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>SetCTestConfiguration:BuildDirectory:N:/dsci/repo/common/scripts/CDashBuilder/ctest<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Run dashboard with model Nightly<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> Source directory: N:/dsci/repo/common/scripts/CDashBuilder<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> Build directory: N:/dsci/repo/common/scripts/CDashBuilder/ctest<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> Reading ctest configuration file: N:/dsci/repo/common/scripts/CDashBuilder/CTestConfig.cmake<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>SetCTestConfigurationFromCMakeVariable:NightlyStartTime:CTEST_NIGHTLY_START_TIMESetCTestConfiguration:NightlyStartTime:00:00:00 EDT<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>SetCTestConfigurationFromCMakeVariable:Site:CTEST_SITESetCTestConfiguration:Site:192.168.15.187<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>SetCTestConfigurationFromCMakeVariable:BuildName:CTEST_BUILD_NAMESetCTestConfiguration:BuildName:WindowsXP-N__dsci_repo_common_ext_dll<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> Site: 192.168.15.187<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> Build name: WindowsXP-N__dsci_repo_common_ext_dll<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Determine Nightly Start Time<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> Specified time: 00:00:00 EDT<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> Use Nightly tag: 20100503-0400<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>SetCTestConfiguration:SourceDirectory:N:/dsci/repo/common/ext/dll<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>SetCTestConfigurationFromCMakeVariable:SVNCommand:CTEST_SVN_COMMANDSetCTestConfiguration:SVNCommand:svn<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>SetCTestConfiguration:BuildDirectory:N:/dsci/repo/common/scripts/CDashBuilder/ctest<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>SetCTestConfiguration:SourceDirectory:N:/dsci/repo/common/ext/dll<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> Updating the repository: N:/dsci/repo/common/ext/dll<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> Use SVN repository type<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> Old revision of repository is: 27078<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Determine Nightly Start Time<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> Specified time: 00:00:00 EDT<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> New revision of repository is: 27054<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> Gathering version information (one . per revision):<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> Found 6 updated files<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Any advice/suggestions you could offer would be greatly
appreciated. Thanks!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Sincerely, <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Luke Kucalaba<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Senior Software Engineer<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>D&S Consultants Inc<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Columbus</span></font></st1:City><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>, <st1:State
w:st="on">Ohio</st1:State></span></font></st1:place><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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