[cmake-developers] Ninja Windows dashboard regression

[Peter Kümmel]

On 21.02.2013 17:11, Brad King wrote:
> On 02/16/2013 10:17 AM, Peter Kuemmel wrote:
>> http://cmake.org/gitweb?p=cmake.git;a=commitdiff;h=303014279a160ea73777426d63cdf2c7f794018f
>> commit 303014279a160ea73777426d63cdf2c7f794018f
>> Author:     Peter Kümmel <syntheticpp at gmx.net>
>> AuthorDate: Sat Feb 16 16:14:23 2013 +0100
>> Commit:     Peter Kümmel <syntheticpp at gmx.net>
>> CommitDate: Sat Feb 16 16:14:52 2013 +0100
>>
>>      Revert "Ninja: use absolute paths for sources and includes"
>>
>>      This reverts commit df7f1790b7cf69def45f55cb03ce0f9cef1eddb5.
>>
>>      It shows that absolute paths breaks dependency tracing and adds
>>      lot of emtpy build commands.
>
> This dashboard failure:
>
>   http://open.cdash.org/viewConfigure.php?buildid=2816089
>   Site: dash2win64-windows.kitware
>   Build Name: Windows-VS9-ninja
>   Configure Command: "C:/Dashboards/Support/CMake2.8-ninja/bin/cmake.exe" "-GNinja" "c:/Dashboards/My Tests/NinjaCMake"
>   Configure Return Value: 1
>   Configure Output:
>   CMake Error: CMake was unable to find a build program corresponding to "Ninja".
>   CMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM is not set.  You probably need to select a different build tool.
>
> started on the day the above commit was merged:
>
>   http://open.cdash.org/index.php?project=CMake&filtercount=3&showfilters=1&filtercombine=and&field1=buildname/string&compare1=63&value1=Windows-VS9-ninja&field2=buildstarttime/date&compare2=83&value2=2013-02-15&field3=buildstarttime/date&compare3=84&value3=2013-02-19
>
> Please take a look.
>
> Thanks,
> -Brad
>

The commit is a revert of a commit only some hours before, so effectively nothing has
changed. But maybe there is a memory effect in the build dir when it is not a clean build. 
Otherwise I've no idea what happened, and would assume no Ninja is installed.

Peter