[CMake] How to make ctest not buffer its output?

Alexander Neundorf a.neundorf-work at gmx.net
Thu Dec 4 15:37:13 EST 2008


On Thursday 04 December 2008, Hugo Heden wrote:
> Good day all,
>
> I use ctest --build-and-test to do some stuff that takes a long time.
> It seems that ctest buffers the output of its subcommands so that
> nothing is written (to the "terminal") until at the end. This is a
> little unconvenient -- as a human I feel more comfortable actually
> seeing that "something is happening".
>
> Is there a way I can force ctest to not buffer the output of
> subcommands, but rather just flush it?

Does ctest -VV do what you want ?
It switches to "extra verbose" mode.

Alex


More information about the CMake mailing list