setting environment variables from config possible

README.md

@@ -48,6 +48,14 @@ env.CTESTOPTS="-j1"
 env.RUN_FROM_SUBDIR="examples"
 ```
 
+- Set extra environment variables:
+The variables are gives as space separated lists of key=values pairs. The pairs must not have spaces. JOB_VARIABLES are applied to build and tests (incl. analysis), while TEST_VARIABLES are only in tests and analysis.
+```
+env.JOB_VARIABLES="A=aha B=bubu"
+env.TEST_VARABLES="PATH=${PATH}:/some/path/for/the/test"
+```
+
+
 ## Analysis jobs
 - Exclude tests from being run in valgrind (currently only possible with a single test):
 ```

vars/helper.groovy

@@ -166,6 +166,9 @@ def doBuild(String label, String buildType) {
      else
       SUBDIR="${env.RUN_FROM_SUBDIR}"
      fi
+     for VAR in \${JOB_VARIABLES}; do
+       export ${VAR}
+     done
      sudo -H -u msk_jenkins cmake /scratch/source/\${SUBDIR} -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=${buildType} -DSUPPRESS_AUTO_DOC_BUILD=true \${CMAKE_EXTRA_ARGS}
       sudo -H -u msk_jenkins make ${env.MAKEOPTS}
     """
@@ -191,6 +194,9 @@ def doTest(String label, String buildType) {
     if [ -z "\${CTESTOPTS}" ]; then
       CTESTOPTS="${env.MAKEOPTS}"
     fi
+    for VAR in \${JOB_VARIABLES}  \${TEST_VARIABLES}; do
+       export ${VAR}
+    done
     sudo -H -u msk_jenkins ctest --no-compress-output \${CTESTOPTS} -T Test -V || true
     sudo -H -u msk_jenkins sed -i Testing/*/Test.xml -e 's_\\(^[[:space:]]*<Name>\\)\\(.*\\)\\(</Name>\\)\$_\\1${label}.${buildType}.\\2\\3_'
     sudo -H -u msk_jenkins cp -r /scratch/build-${JOB_NAME}/Testing "${WORKSPACE}"