[CMake] 2.8.4 order of tests

[David Cole]

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Allen D Byrne <byrn at hdfgroup.org> wrote:
> I just installed 2.8.4 and on my fedora 14 linux box the ctest -D
> Experimental stage decided to run the tests in some unknown to me order. The
> previous versions always ran them in order of definition. Any thing I can do
> to get the ordering back?
>
> Allen
>
> _______________________________________________
> Powered by www.kitware.com
>
> Visit other Kitware open-source projects at
> http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html
>
> Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at:
> http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ
>
> Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe:
> http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
>

Delete the file "Testing/Temporary/CTestCostData.txt" in your build
tree. It saves run times from run to run and orders them as "slowest
first" on subsequent runs.

A clean build (no CostData file) without any parallel testing, and
without any test COST properties defined should give you the top to
bottom ordering that you're used to.

Saving this data from run to run helps us schedule parallel testing
jobs efficiently on subsequent runs.


HTH,
David