[CMake] ADD_TEST comparing the command input with a file content

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2008-07-04 12:08+0200 William Candillon wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm using the ADD_TEST command to test the output of my executable like this:
> ADD_TEST(test mycommand)
> SET_TEST_PROPERTIES(test PROPERTIES PASS_REGULAR_EXPRESSION "foo")
>
> However, I would like to compare the output with the content of a
> file. Is there a platform independent way to do that without writing a
> perl script for example ?

You can run "cmake -E compare_files file1 file2" as part of your test at
test time (not at the normal cmake time when the tests are configured) to
check whether file1 and file2 are the same or not.

Alan
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