[CMake] 2.8.4 order of tests

[David Cole]

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 4:08 PM, David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com> wrote:
> 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
>>
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>
> 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
>


Having said all that: if your goal is to order certain tests with
respect to each other, see the help for the test property "DEPENDS":
http://cmake.org/cmake/help/cmake-2-8-docs.html#prop_test:DEPENDS