[cmake-developers] [CMake] How to set _default_ timeout for the ctest command? (fwd)

[Ben Boeckel]

On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 23:01:31 -0800, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> On the cmake general list, Brad recently answered my original query on this
> subject and appears to agree with me that that ctest --timeout
> option should always have the highest priority, i.e., override any
> timeout set by the project such as the above TIMEOUT property.

Here's the snippet from Brad's message:

> From the history of that code it looks like --timeout was added with
> no consideration of its relationship to CTEST_TEST_TIMEOUT.  Some
> other CTest options in the same scope as CTEST_TEST_TIMEOUT can be
> overridden by the command line, so I agree that --timeout should
> override it too.

    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.programming.tools.cmake.user/54086/focus=54168

which implies that --timeout sets CTEST_TEST_TIMEOUT, but any properties
would ignore the setting (as they do now).

--Ben