[CMake] CTest and Makefiles

[Juan Sanchez]

As a followup.  If I "touch test", the test no longer runs.  If I add
the PHONY target to the Makefile.  The tests still run.


 ~/bar> make test

Running tests...
Start processing tests
Test project /home/juans/bar
  1/  1 Testing foo                          Passed

100% tests passed, 0 tests failed out of 1
 ~/bar> make test
Running tests...
Start processing tests
Test project /home/juans/bar
  1/  1 Testing foo                          Passed

100% tests passed, 0 tests failed out of 1
 ~/bar> touch test
 ~/bar> make test
 ~/bar>

 ~/bar> echo ".PHONY: test" >> Makefile

 ~/bar> make test
Running tests...
Start processing tests
Test project /home/juans/bar
  1/  1 Testing foo                          Passed



Juan Sanchez wrote:
> Would you happen to have a file named "test" in your binary area?  Make
> will see the file and think that the target "test" is up to date.
> 
> A proper gnu makefile would mark the test target as phony.  Looking at
> the gnu makefile generated by one of my projects, test is not marked as
> phony.
> 
> Let me know if this is the issue.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Juan
> 
> KSpam wrote:
>> I have a strange problem using CTest with Makefiles.  If I run "make test", 
>> ctest is never called.  If I change the name of the target in the Makefile 
>> from "test" to "test2" and run "make test2", then ctest is called properly.
>>
>> After changing the target name, "make test" is still recognized as a valid 
>> target.  In other words, I do not receive the following error:
>>
>> make: *** No rule to make target `test'.  Stop.
>>
>> It seems like make has its own internal test target and it will not use the 
>> test target from the Makefile.  Does anyone know what is going on here or how 
>> to fix it?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Justin
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