[CMake] perennial question, how to setup environment for simple tests

[Philip Lowman]

On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Ian Monroe <ian at monroe.nu> wrote:

> I've seen this question in the archives, but I was wondering if
> there's been any progress since I last saw it asked (>1 year ago).
>
> I have some unit tests. I need to run a command or two and set some
> environmental variables before all the tests start. Does CMake have a
> solution for this yet? Are there any common practices to handle what
> I'm guessing is a pretty common thing?
>
> I notice that CTest would allow me to setup a test environment, but
> since it requires hardcoding the source and build directory it seems
> pretty inappropriate as a common-repo script used by multiple
> developers. Possibly the solution is to figure out how CTest can be
> used anyways.


This feature has been implemented in CMake CVS for some time thanks to David
Cole.  If someone would commit the patch I sent in so it shows up in the
documentation (attached to this bug) they could then close this bug.

http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=7885

also this duplicate bug as well.
http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=6391

-- 
Philip Lowman
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