[CMake] RUN_TESTS project & dependencies

[Eric Noulard]

2009/3/20 Philip Lowman <philip at yhbt.com>:
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:35 AM, Robert Dailey <rcdailey at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm currently using Visual Studio 2008 and CMake v2.6.3. I noticed that
>> when I create unit tests, they are not added as dependencies in the solution
>> containing all of the unit test projects + the RUN_TESTS project. For
>> example, when I change one of the source files in a particular unit test
>> project, running RUN_TESTS will still run the old tests and not force them
>> to rebuild. If RUN_TESTS had a dependency on all unit tests in the solution
>> this problem would be solved. Is there a way to set this up? If not, why is
>> this behavior not supported?
>
> This would be a nice thing to have.  I had someone complain at work the
> other day that they had to run "make" before "make test" as well.  Seems
> like CMake should add the dependency to the test target as add_test() is
> being called.

You may have a look at another thread on the ML
that is pursuing a similar issue;

http://www.cmake.org/pipermail/cmake/2009-March/027929.html

>
> Have you filed a feature request yet for this?  Is there already one?
>


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Erk