[CMake] ctest question

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2007-09-23 20:58-0700 Sanchez, Juan wrote:

> Well the fundamental problem is the point when the test gets run.

When you run ctest (after cmake and make).

> I would think your solution requires that the test has already been
executed.  For my purposes, that is way too premature and costly.

I believe you are concerned about an issue that does not exist.  Hopefully,
my answer above addresses your concern.

> [...]The whole point of me querying
the list about this type of stuff is to share collective experiences about
an issue I don't believe to be covered in the online or book documentation.

We (PLplot) use ctest to extensively test our software build, and I am sure
the same is true of most other mature projects that use cmake.  I think you
are concerned it is something really complicated when in fact it is standard
stuff that is pretty trivial to set up. You set up ctest with ADD_TEST at
cmake time (look at the ADD_TEST documentation for more details), and the
actual test gets run when you run ctest (after build time).  (Run ctest
--help-full for more details).

It should all become clear once you run a simple ctest case following the
documentation I have specified.

Alan
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