[CMake] How to emulate autotools "make check"?

[Marcel Loose]

Hi Erk,

Thanks for your prompt reply. Your example works great.
In the mean time, I found another way to solve my problem:

add_custom_target(check DEPENDS t_hello)
add_custom_command(TARGET t_hello POST_BUILD
  COMMAND ${CMAKE_CTEST_COMMAND} t_hello)

But I think I prefer your solution; it saves an extra
add_custom_target() statement.

On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 10:06 +0100, Eric Noulard wrote:
> 2009/3/20 Marcel Loose <loose at astron.nl>:
> > Hi Erk,
> >
> > On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 15:37 +0100, Eric Noulard wrote:
> >> 2009/3/19 Marcel Loose <loose at astron.nl>:
> >> > Hi Eric,
> >> >
> >> > I used "make test" first, but that failed the same way ctest fails.
> >> > However, ctest -V at least gave me some more (useful) output.
> >>
> >> You are right there is no "functional" difference,
> >> in one case you'll have
> >> make test --> ctest --> ctest
> >> and in the other
> >> ctest --> ctest
> >
> > I still don't understand why ctest is being called twice, or (as you
> > say) recursively.
> 
> Because you ask for it :-)
> when calling ctest in add_test.

Ok, I see.
But how then, should I read the example from section 10.5 from the
"Mastering CMake" book? Here's a quote from page 167.

<qoute>
For example, consider the following ADD_TEST command taken from the
CMakeLists.txt file of CMake itself. It shows how CTest can be used both
to compile and run a test.

  add_test (simple ${CMAKE_TEST_COMMAND}
    --build-and-test "${CMake_SOURCE_DIR}/Tests/Simple"
                     "${CMake_BINARY_DIR}/Tests/Simple"
    --build-generator ${CMAKE_GENERATOR}
    --build-makeprogram ${CMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM}
    --build-project Simple
    --test-command simple)

</quote>

This quote contradicts the statement you made in an earlier reply that 
[... CTest is **only** executing some prebuilt executable with given
agrument ...]


Best regards,
Marcel Loose