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

[David Cole]

I agree with Brad, the --timeout command line parameter should only
set/override the variable CTEST_TEST_TIMEOUT. The behavior w.r.t. test
TIMEOUT properties should be left as is for this change.

A **new** --timeout-scale with well defined / documented interactions
with the global variable and the test properties would be the best
approach for introducing changes in behavior. Or a **new**
--ignore-timeout-test-property to simply use the global value
everywhere for some use cases.


D



On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 12:53 PM, Ben Boeckel <ben.boeckel at kitware.com> wrote:
> 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
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