[CMake] Coverage Woes

[Mathieu Malaterre]

On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Bill Hoffman <bill.hoffman at kitware.com> wrote:
> Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Bill Hoffman <bill.hoffman at kitware.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Blezek, Daniel J. wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>>  We're ramping up our testing using CDash, CTest, and CMake.  I started
>>>> a
>>>> coverage build but get no coverage information. I'm not sure how to
>>>> debug
>>>> ctest as it doesn't produce coverage information properly.  Long post,
>>>> sorry.
>>
>> Dan,
>>
>>  I am also experiencing the same issue here (gdcm dashboard). What I
>> found out is simply doing:
>>
>> cat dashboard.sh
>> ...
>> ctest -S main_dashboard_with_coverage.cmake
>> # extra steps to submit coverage properly (almost):
>> cd $HOME/Dashboards/MyTests/gdcm-2-0-nightly-cov
>> make NightlyCoverage && make NightlySubmit
>> ...
>>
>>  not nice, but at least give the results I was looking for
>> (coverage). Until someone with lots of free time, figure out the real
>> issue, I'll continue this way.
>>
>
> CMake, and several other projects at Kitware are submitting coverage just
> fine....   Exactly what is in the main_dashboard_with_coverage.cmake that
> does not work???
>

Here you go.
http://www.cdash.org/CDash/viewNotes.php?buildid=235370

I do not remember all the details, but I *think* gcov was complaining
about some files not being found. While the second time I would be
running make *Coverage, it would work.

> The two that are gcov based are old style scripts.  I will see about setting
> up a new style gcov based script, but if NightlyCoverage works, I don't see
> why the new style ctest would not work...

I know :(


-- 
Mathieu