[cmake-developers] Perforce Patch for CTest

[Bill Hoffman]

On 10/17/2013 1:52 PM, Pedro Navarro wrote:
> Ok, I have the patch working and I'm going to send it soon. One
> question, is it possible to launch a detached process from within CMake?
> If I use EXECUTE_PROCESS to start p4d, CMake waits for it to finish so
> -for now- I'm launching the Perforce daemon outside CMake.
>
> Pedro
>
It is not possible to do this.  One work around is to put the start of 
the process in a shell script or bat file that is used to run the ctest 
script which is basically what you are doing.  :)


-Bill