[cmake-developers] Test failing because Test directory is not clean

[Eric Noulard]

2011/2/23 Clinton Stimpson <clinton at elemtech.com>:

> I've having problems with these tests too.
> If they fail once, they will keep failing until some files generated by the
> failed test are cleaned up.

Some files should be, the package files located at the root of the build dir.

> Seems to me that an extra cleanup step should be done before or during the
> "ctest --build-and-test ...." for these tests that glob for generated files.
> Could you do this with a ctest script that cleans the test specific build
> directory before doing the configure/build/test?  And call that ctest script
> in the add_test() call?
> I'm not sure if this is a good idea, but what if the glob was done under the
> _CPack_Packages directory which cpack always cleans beforehand.

In my case it wouldn't be enough to kill _CPack_Packages there will remain
spurious files in the build tree.



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