[CMake] How set "Build Name" in CTest/CDash?

[John Drescher]

> The old-fashioned way of doing this is to set a BUILDNAME variable in the
> cmake cache...
>
> In your CMakeLists.txt:
> set(BUILDNAME "myBuildName" CACHE STRING "build name variable for CDash")
>
> The new-fashioned way is to set CTEST_BUILD_NAME in your ctest -S script
> prior to ctest_configure, ctest_build and ctest_submit...
> set(CTEST_BUILD_NAME "myBuildName")
>
> Where were you reading the ctest manpage that talks about setting
> CMAKE_SYSTEM and CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER variables?? What version of ctest? That
> is completely incorrect, and if it's in the official ctest documentation, we
> should fix that and remove the incorrect information. Can you please reply
> and tell me how you found this incorrect information...?
>

How would we do that for the Dashboard Fest since we should not be
messing with the CMakeLists.txt files?

I am a little confused. For my i7 CPU I do:

make clean
 ctest -j8 -D Experimental

John