[CMake] CTest ignoring custom set variables

[Martin Apel]

David Cole wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 3:58 AM, Martin Apel <martin.apel at simpack.de
> <mailto:martin.apel at simpack.de>> wrote:
>
>     Hi all,
>
>     I tried to set some CTest custom variables such as
>     CTEST_CUSTOM_MAXIMUM_FAILED_TEST_OUTPUT_SIZE in the CTestCustom.cmake
>     file in the binary directory.
>     This works as long as I run ctest interactively, e.g. "ctest -D
>     Experimental". In this case, the test output is not cut off. If I
>     do the
>     same using a CTest script, it seems the CTestCustom.cmake file
>     is completely ignored, so the test output is cut off at the default
>     value of 1024 characters.
>      Is this intended behaviour or is it a bug?
>
>
> Probably a little bit of each... 
>
> Try putting a call to:
> CTEST_READ_CUSTOM_FILES("${CTEST_BINARY_DIRECTORY}")
>
> after ctest_configure and before ctest_build...
>
> One could certainly make the argument that this should be entirely
> invisible and automatic and buried inside the ctest_configure call. In
> that sense, it's a bug.
>
> I know the author of the ctest_read_custom_files command intended
> things to be this way, but I still do not understand why... Perhaps if
> nobody can explain why it should be left this way, it would make sense
> to try to make this implied/automatic at the end of a ctest_configure
> command....
>
>
> HTH,
> David
Hi David,

thanks a lot, this did the trick.

Regards,

Martin
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