On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Doug Gregor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Troy, > > On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 3:50 PM, troy d. straszheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > 4. Tell how many *successful* build steps were executed. ctest > > reports only failures. For instance, if I run an incremental > > build and look at the results on dart, I don't know how many > > files were actually rebuilt. I often want to know this information, > > though: for instance, if the patches I committed haven't fixed > > certain test failures, I really want to be able to check that the > > tests themselves were actually rebuilt. > > Interesting. What's more important to know---which files were rebuilt, > or which Subversion revision I've been much happier with the current Boost regression reporting since it started reporting the SVN revision number. I'd hate to go back to a system that didn't report that. > > > 5. See the actual commands executed to run certain builds. One often > > wants to do this when chasing build misconfigurations: what were > > the flags this lib was built with? > > Yes, this is really, really important information whenever something > fails, and CTest/Dart/CDash don't do a good job of handling this. FWIW, I really depend on jbam's -d2 option to track down misconfigurations. > [snip log-scraping issues, solution] > > On integration into cmake: > > > > - CMake already does something similar: Think > > CMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILES and the toggleable fancy colorization > > and percent-completed display. > > Right. Note that this stuff does not work in Visual Studio, which may > be an issue. I don't understand the Visual Studio model well enough to > have a good sense of whether something similar is possible. I guess in > the worst case, we have some limitations in Visual Studio or ask > regression testers to use NMAKE Even though Visual Studio has been my preferred development platform for many years, I'd prefer NMAKE for regression tests. I run them in the background while doing other work, and don't want Visual Studio popping up on the screen. --Beman
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