[cmake-developers] Perforce Patch for CTest

Rolf Eike Beer eike at sf-mail.de
Thu Oct 17 16:56:20 EDT 2013


Am Donnerstag, 17. Oktober 2013, 14:18:34 schrieb 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.
> 
> 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.  :)

We should think if this should be something that is needed. Running some sort 
of background process is a common pattern for all sorts of tests. Often really 
detaching is not needed, It is usually sufficient to have one process running in 
the background while the tests runs.

Eike
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