[CMake] parallel builds for ctest
Bill Hoffman
bill.hoffman at kitware.com
Sat Feb 16 15:46:25 EST 2008
Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> On 2008-02-16 12:38-0500 Bill Hoffman wrote:
>
>> [...]parallel ctest is on the todo list for this year. Most likely
>> it will be ctest -j N. We can not depend on the make system to do
>> the parallel stuff, and ctest -j would be useful for all generators.
>
> That's excellent news! The execution of the PLplot tests actually take
> about the same time to run as (non-parallel) building of PLplot itself. Now
> we are doing our builds in parallel, convenient parallel testing will be
> most welcome as well, and I look forward to trying out that new ctest
> functionality once you are ready.
>
As a work around until we get it done, you can do something like this:
ctest -I1,10
ctest -I11,20
And run each of those in a different shell.
-Bill
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