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

[Marcel Loose]

Hi Shlomi,

If you want to RUN the tests as part of 'make all', I think you're out
of luck. 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})

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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