[cmake-developers] add_custom_command differences in tests

[Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin]

Agreed. Is there an issue in the tracker to document that problem ?


On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 3:05 PM, Steve Wilson <stevew at wolfram.com> wrote:

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> On Feb 7, 2014, at 10:14 AM, Steve Wilson <stevew at wolfram.com> wrote:
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> On Feb 6, 2014, at 10:12 PM, Ben Boeckel <ben.boeckel at kitware.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 17:30:11 -0700, Steve Wilson wrote:
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> I have my topic branch with the add_custom_command changes to include
> the CONFIG keyword working.    The CMake binary produced from the
> build will correctly generated build systems that have custom commands
> with the CONFIG keyword.   I'm having trouble writing tests for the
> changes though.   When I run add_custom_command with the CONFIG
> keyword in the test suite the CONFIG keyword does not work.
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> I need a little guidance with the test suite.   I'm not super familiar
> with CTest so I'm not sure where to look next to find the problem.
> So my question:  Why would add_custom_command behave differently in
> the tests than in regular build system generation?
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> I have been able to determine that the code isn't working because it seems
> that when running from ctest, cmake seems to be running in a
> configuration-less mode. Ie CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE/CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPE are
> not set regardless of the -C option passed to ctest.    I would have
> thought that the build configuration of the test would match the
> configuration set with 'ctest -C .'
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