[CMake] 2.8.4 order of tests

[Allen D Byrne]

Just using standard gcc/gfortran on the fedora distro. It is the 64bit version?

You can grab one of our recent src tarballs from
"http://www.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF5/hdf5-1.8.6/"

Allen
PS. I will be out of touch for the next 36 hours

> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Allen D Byrne <byrn at hdfgroup.org> wrote:
> > This was from a clean build folder. And I just want the test to run in the
> > order defined in the CMakeLists.txt files. Also never had set any COST
> > properties. The surprise was that this never happened before.
> >
> > Allen
> >
> >> 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.
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> >> >
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> >> >
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> >> > 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
> >
> >>
> 
> So there is no "Testing/Temporary/CTestCostData.txt" file at the time
> you call "ctest -D Experimental"?
> 
> Can you point me to a source tree that I can build that demonstrates
> this behavior?
> 
> If you are not running tests in parallel and you have no "cost data"
> (in the form of a cached file or properties set) then the tests should
> run in the same top-to-bottom order that they always have.
> 
> 
> Thx,
> David
> 
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