[CMake] Testing an installation

[Michael Jackson]

Thanks everyone. These are all great ideas and I will attempt to incorporate a hybrid of them all. BTW, this is for the HDF5 project.

Thanks
mike jackson

On Dec 3, 2013, at 8:56 AM, clinton at elemtech.com wrote:

> 
> ----- Original Message -----
>> I need to implement a "test" that does an installation of my project into a
>> location and then check that all the files indeed got installed or if there
>> are any errors during the installation. Is there a "best practice" way of
>> achieving this with CMake? Does CMake itself do something like this in their
>> own test suite?
>> 
> 
> I'm not sure if there is a best practice for this, but I make a test like this:
> add_test(package ${CMAKE_CPACK_COMMAND} -V -C \${CTEST_CONFIGURATION_TYPE} --config "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/CPackConfig.cmake")
> 
> With it being verbose (-V), I can get extra information to show up on cdash in case there are problems.
> 
> I also have additional install commands
> install(CODE/SCRIPT ...)
> to check if the installation is OK.  That includes things like BundleUtilities, and a test run of the program.
> 
> Clint
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