[CMake] How to make sure "make test" depends on "make all"

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi Marcel!

On Thursday 25 June 2009 13:30:53 Marcel Loose wrote:
> Hi Shlomi,
>
> It's not completely clear to me how you'd normally run a test. Is that
> something like:
>
> $ tap <mytest-prog>
>
> If so, you could do 'add_test(${name} tap ${name})
>

No, the TAP harness is written in Perl and I just run "perl run-tests.pl" to 
run all the TAP tests and report the results. Some tests are written in Perl , 
and some are written in C, and they all output results in the TAP format that 
are processed by the harness.

What I want is that "make check" will run "make all" before running the test 
harness.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

> Best regards,
> Marcel Loose.
>
> On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 12:45 +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> > On Thursday 25 June 2009 10:35:30 Marcel Loose wrote:
> > > Hi Shlomi,
> > >
> > > If you want to RUN the tests as part of 'make all', I think you're out
> > > of luck.
> >
> > No, I don't want that. What I do want is to that "make test" (or
> > alternatively "make check") to depend on "make all" and run it
> > automatically before starting the tests.
> >
> > > In the method I proposed, you can use 'make check', which will
> > > build all the test programs and run them. If all your sources have
> > > associated test programs, this will effectively build all your source
> > > code as well!
> > >
> > > For this to work, you should use:
> > >
> > > - add_custom_target(check COMMAND ${CMAKE_CTEST_COMMAND}) (only ONCE!)
> > > - The following triad (for each test program):
> > >   - add_executable(${name} srcs...)
> > >   - add_test(${name} ${name})
> > >   - add_dependencies(check ${name})
> >
> > This seems like it would build build a few executables and then run them
> > as tests. My test, on the other hand, is a Perl program that runs a few
> > TAP scripts (see http://testanything.org/ ) and depends on the normal
> > executables (that may later get installed or run from ./) to work. So I
> > need a dependency for "make all" on "make check"/"make test".
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > 	Shlomi Fish
> >
> > > Best regards,
> > > Marcel Loose.
> > >
> > > On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 15:04 +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> > > > Hi Marcel!
> > > >
> > > > On Tuesday 23 June 2009 13:03:25 Marcel Loose wrote:
> > > > > Hi Shlomi
> > > > >
> > > > > You might consider using another target, say 'check'. I've used
> > > > > that to mimic more or less the GNU autotools behaviour. See
> > > > > http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMakeEmulateMakeCheck. Don't use
> > > > > EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL if you want your test programs to depend on the
> > > > > target 'all'.
> > > >
> > > > Tried it and it didn't work. I still couldn't get it to run the "all"
> > > > target by default (i.e: depend on it). The EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL specifies
> > > > whether "check" will be built as part of "all" - not vice versa.
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > >
> > > > 	Shlomi Fish
> > > >
> > > > > Best regards,
> > > > > Marcel Loose.
> > > > >
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: Hugo Heden <hugoheden at gmail.com>
> > > > > To: Shlomi Fish <shlomif at iglu.org.il>
> > > > > Cc: Cmake Mailing List <cmake at cmake.org>
> > > > > Subject: Re: [CMake] How to make sure "make test" depends on "make
> > > > > all" Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:57:16 +0200
> > > > >
> > > > > On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Shlomi Fish <shlomif at iglu.org.il>
> > > > > wrote:
> > > > >         Hi all!
> > > > >
> > > > >         I'm using cmake-2.6.4-3mdv2010.0 on Mandriva Linux Cooker,
> > > > > and ran into a
> > > > >         problem. I want "make test" (which is a custom target) to
> > > > > depend on "make
> > > > >         all", in this codebase:
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > I can't say that I understand the error messages you're getting,
> > > > > but it is unfortunately *not* possible to make built-in targets
> > > > > like "test", "all" and "install" depend on each other. See for
> > > > > example this bug:
> > > > >
> > > > > http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=8438
> > > > >
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