[CMake] CTest and Makefiles

[Juan Sanchez]

I preemptively filed bug:

http://www.cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=5785

I didn't know directories could trigger this as well.

Juan


KSpam wrote:
> Juan,
> 
> Thanks for the tip!  Although I did not have a file named "test", I did have a 
> directory named "test" (that contains all of my test projects naturally).  
> Marking the test target as phony in the Makefile resolved the issue.
> 
> It sounds like this should be fixed in the Makefile generator.  There are 
> several other targets that should be marked as phony as well.
> 
> Thanks,
> Justin
> 
> On Wednesday 26 September 2007 09:43:42 Juan Sanchez wrote:
>> 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