[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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