[CMake] CTest of multiple projects

David Cole david.cole at kitware.com
Sat Oct 15 06:22:56 EDT 2011


On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 5:32 PM, David Thompson <dcthomp at sandia.gov> wrote:
> Hi Tim,
>
>> Is it possible to make CTest aware of other CTest things going on? For
>> example, let's say I have a continuous build set up for two different
>> projects, and each has 1 test in it that uses all the processors in the
>> machine.
>>
>> Is it possible to set it up in a such a way that the two different
>> projects don't get tested at the same time?
>
> I have some shell scripts that use the Unix lockfile command to allow just
> one dashboard at a time to run (whichever one owns a specific file on the
> filesystem). But ctest may have evolved its own solution -- I'll be curious
> to see if anyone else responds with a more official version. If not, I'm
> happy to share the scripts.
>
>        David
>
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Please do share.

Multiple instances of ctest do not communicate with each other to
coordinate processing resources at the present time. (as of the
current CMake version of 2.8.6...)


Thx,
David C.


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