[CMake] Executing a CMake Custom Target from CTest

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Tuesday 03 November 2009, Bill Hoffman wrote:
> Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> >   I'd like to know if this is possible to execute a cmake custom
> > target from my nightly ctest script.
> > Eg. In cmake
> >
> > ...
> >   ADD_CUSTOM_COMMAND(
> >     OUTPUT bla.txt
> >     COMMAND echo "bla" > bla.txt
> >     VERBATIM
> >     )
> >   ADD_CUSTOM_TARGET(BLA DEPENDS ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/bla.txt)
> > ...
> >
> >   For now I am copy/pasting this as an execute_process:
> >
> > ...
> > CTEST_START(Nightly)
> > CTEST_UPDATE(SOURCE "${CTEST_SOURCE_DIRECTORY}" RETURN_VALUE res)
> > CTEST_CONFIGURE(BUILD "${CTEST_BINARY_DIRECTORY}" RETURN_VALUE res)
> > # duplicated code:
> > EXECUTE_PROCESS(COMMAND echo "bla" > bla.txt
> >   OUTPUT_FILE bla.txt
> >   RESULT_VARIABLE RES)
> > CTEST_SUBMIT(RETURN_VALUE res)
> > ...
>
> This should do what you want:
>      SET( CTEST_BUILD_TARGET BLA)
>      CTEST_BUILD (
>          BUILD "${CTEST_BINARY_DIRECTORY}"
>          APPEND
>          )

It would be nice if there were TARGET, FLAGS and maybe CONFIGURATION and 
PROJECT_NAME keywords for CTEST_BUILD(), setting the variables 
CTEST_BUILD_TARGET, CTEST_BUILD_FLAGS, CTEST_BUILD_CONFIGURATION and 
CTEST_BUILD_PROJECT_NAME feels a bit old-style ;-)

Alex