[CMake] Install without building unittests

[Scott Bloom]

That is really not what we want..  We simply don’t want the Install target to have a dependency on the unittests.  Essentially, the Install target should be have the same as the test target.

If you to a make test, or from VS, on RUN_TESTS, RMB->Build, it doesn’t build the tests if they are out of date (or non-existant)

Scott

From: Kyle Edwards <kyle.edwards at kitware.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2019 7:48 AM
To: Scott Bloom <scott at towel42.com>; cmake at cmake.org
Subject: Re: [CMake] Install without building unittests

You could build CMake with -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF. This will skip the unit tests altogether.

Kyle

On Thu, 2019-03-28 at 02:24 +0000, Scott Bloom wrote:
Note, Im running from inside visual studio…  I do realize for a makefile based system, I can run make install from inside the executable’s build directory

From: CMake <cmake-bounces at cmake.org<mailto:cmake-bounces at cmake.org>> On Behalf Of Scott Bloom
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 7:23 PM
To: cmake at cmake.org<mailto:cmake at cmake.org>
Subject: [CMake] Install without building unittests

I asked this a couple of years ago, and the answer was “no”…

If you run tests, it doesn’t automatically build tests…  So why does an install?

I would never release something into the wild with out running the tests…

But, for developer builds, were we need to install all the packages in order to run the applications, sometimes I just want to test the GUI which requires an install of the core application into the correct location, without building the 1500+ (yes 1500) unittests, which can take 15-20 minutes to build on their own…

Is there anyway to break the dependency??

Scott

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