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

[Eric Noulard]

2011/2/23 Eric Noulard <eric.noulard at gmail.com>:
> 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.

I did pushed forward the CPack-ChangeComponentNamingScheme branch
the test itself is cleaning up the build tree from expected package files
before running CPack.


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