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[Alexander Neundorf]

On Monday 03 May 2010, Volker Krause wrote:
> On Sunday 02 May 2010 14:26:56 Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > On Sunday 02 May 2010, Volker Krause wrote:
> > > My Linux build still runs on a simple shell script, my Windows/mingw
> > > build
> >
> > Can you post that script here ?
> > I'd like to have a look at it.
>
> attached, but rather boring and relies heavily on macros in my .bashrc ;)

No, not boring. Thanks :-)

> > > [1] It would be nice if it would be possible to pass additional
> > > arguments to ctest when using e.g. make Experimental in some way. In
> > > our case we
> >
> > In which case do you need "make Experimental" ?
> > This just builds what you currently have on your disk.
>
> I used make Experimental just as an example, I guess we eventually want
> Continuous instead in this case. But since the goal is minimal-intrusive
> integration into an existing system, it'll need some adjustments (such as
> printing the full logs and not doing svn up for example).

Why shouldn't it do svn up ?

If I understand correctly how ctest and cdash work together, I think if ctest 
doesn't do this, then cdash is not able to send the notification emails 
(because it receives the update information via ctest).

Alex