[cmake-developers] CTest CTEST_TESTFLAGS env var?

[Brad King]

On 05/17/2013 09:38 AM, Stephen Kelly wrote:
> Brad King wrote:
> 
>> On 05/16/2013 04:56 PM, Stephen Kelly wrote:
>>> I run Qt unit tests like this:
>>>
>>>  qmake && make check
>>>
>>> The make check target runs cmake and ctest. However, this does not take
>>> advantage of the ability of CTest to run tests in parallel. Rather than
>>> trying to shoehorn in a -j argument via the qmake files, I'd prefer to
>>> set a CTEST_TESTFLAGS variable in my shell and be done with it for all
>>> projects.
>>>
>>> Is such a thing acceptable? How would it be implemented?
>>
>> Teach cmCTest::HandleCommandLineArguments to track whether an explicit
>> -j option was given and if not then after the loop calling it is done
>> check the environment variable.
> 
> Ok, I've done that in the ctest-parallel-env branch in my clone. Initially I 
> was going to make something more-general for command line flags, but I guess 
> this way is ok too. The more general solution would be much more difficult.
> 
> Can I merge that one to next?

Please first clean up the failures currently caused by topics already
in next and wait for a clean dashboard before adding more topics.

In particular it looks like there is a problem with bootstrap.

Thanks,
-Brad