[CMake] ctest command

[Juan Sanchez]

I am trying to follow an example that is in the cmake book.  It is in
section 8.5 "Using CTest to Drive Complex Tests" on page 109.  While my
example differs in that it doesn't use all the arguments being used in
the book's example, it is very important that I understand how to do this.

My primary motivation was getting the "-V" or "-VV" option passed to the
test in order that cmake doesn't void the output from the test, but now
I just want to understand what it takes to get CMAKE_CTEST_COMMAND to
work inside the ADD_TEST statement.

Regards,

Juan




Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> On 2007-10-04 13:03-0500 Juan Sanchez wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to run the following test:
>> ADD_TEST("foo" ${CMAKE_TEST_COMMAND} --build-run-dir
>> ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR} -VV --test-command "ls -ltar /tmp")
>>
>> But it doesn't seem to be running correctly.  It needs to be run from
>> ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}, and the test command needs to be able to take the
>> arguments given.
> 
> I don't have practical experience with many of these ctest options, but I
> was curious and looked them up in the documentation, and it appears you are
> not using them correctly.  For example, --test-command is documented (by
> ctest --help-full) as
> 
> "The test to run with the --build-and-test option."
> 
> but you don't have a --build-and-test option above so I think that's why
> your --test-command option is being ignored.
> 
> Also, I am curious about your practical goal.  If/when the above test
> works it looks like it would create a a simple test that would allow ctest
> to invoke ctest on the command line. Do you need that extra level of ctest
> indirection?
> 
> An alternative to the above extra layer of ctest indirection is to write a
> configurable bash or python or perl script to do what you want at ctest time
> and set up ctest for it using
> 
> ADD_TEST("foo" full_path/scriptname).
> 
> The configurable script, of course, allows you to change directories to any
> configured directory before you run your actual test.
> 
> Alan
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