ctest 'fails' if python has not been run interactively at least once (anonymous logging problem)

[jypeter]

If python has not been run interactively at least once (with some modules from PCMDI imported?), there is no anonymouslog file

~/.uvcdat/.anonymouslog

and running ctest in the build directory ends up with all tests failing (except CDMS_Test_09)

54/71 Test #54: CDMS_Test_08 .......................***Failed    0.12 sec
      Start 55: CDMS_Test_09
55/71 Test #55: CDMS_Test_09 .......................   Passed    0.11 sec
      Start 56: CDMS_Test_10
56/71 Test #56: CDMS_Test_10 .......................***Failed    0.55 sec
[...]
71/71 Test #71: CDMS_Test_pack .....................***Failed    0.12 sec

1% tests passed, 70 tests failed out of 71

Total Test time (real) =  18.17 sec

The following tests FAILED:
      1 - run_uvcdat (Failed)
      2 - cdms_test (Failed)

I'm not sure when the file is created. I have had to import several modules before I was prompted about the anonymous logging

>>> import re
>>> import cdtime
>>> import numpy
>>> import genutil
Allow anonymous logging usage to help improve UV-CDAT? (you can also set the environment variable UVCDAT_ANONYMOUS_LOG to yes or     no) [yes/no]no
>>> 

What do you do with the anonymous logging? How do you send the results to PCMDI? Is there a chance that this may induce some lag when using uv-cdat based scripts? Logging seems like a tempting idea that could have unforeseen side-effects

[doutriaux1]

@aashish24 I know we set the UVCDAT_ANONYMOUS_LOG env variable in CMakeLists.txt, is it not picked up by ctest?

[aashish24]

No it won't because that is setup during the build time. We can setup environment for crest like this:

SET (CTEST_ENVIRONMENT
"DISPLAY=:0"
"GLIBCPP_FORCE_NEW=1"
"CC=gcc-3.4"
"CXX=g++-3.4"
)

do you want to push a branch for this?

[doutriaux1]

@aashish24 we should implement this, and while at it set the env correctly so that we don't need to source setup_runtime

[doutriaux1]

@aashish24 we should add this for 2.2

[aashish24]

yes.. this is problemetic.