[CMake] parallel builds for ctest
Bill Hoffman
bill.hoffman at kitware.com
Sat Feb 16 12:38:32 EST 2008
David Cole wrote:
>
>
> Parallel tests are only going to be possible if you can guarantee that
> all tests are independent of all other tests, or if you specify explicit
> dependencies between tests somehow. (Which would introduce the same sort
> of complexity you complain about above for build steps...)
>
That said, parallel ctest is on the todo list for this year. Most
likely it will be ctest -j N. We can not depend on the make system to
do the parallel stuff, and ctest -j would be useful for all generators.
-Bill
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