[CMake] ctest meant to be re-entrant?

[David Cole]

CTestConfig.cmake should be a source file in your source tree. Nothing
should be writing it automatically.


On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Convey, Christian J CIV NUWC NWPT <
christian.convey at navy.mil> wrote:

> I'm having trouble getting my mind around how CTest is intended to be used.
>  Could someone explain this to me?
>
> When you embed ctest-related statements into a CMakeLists.txt file, and
> then run cmake on that file, you produce a "CTestConfig.cmake" file.  This
> file is eventually executed by "ctest".
>
> But ctest also has the ability to run "cmake".  In the worst-case (in my
> mind) scenario, this ultimately leads to "ctest" causing the rewriting of
> the very "CTestConfig.cmake" file that it's presently executing.
>
> Is this intended?  Or does it lie outside of the intended ways of using
> ctest?
>
>
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