[CMake] CMake make test feature?

[Belcourt, Kenneth]

On Mar 31, 2011, at 4:43 PM, Nicolas Desprès wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 12:22 AM, Belcourt, Kenneth  
> <kbelco at sandia.gov> wrote:
>> This is probably old news but is there some reason why I can build  
>> my code
>> in parallel with make -j8, for example, but trying to run the tests  
>> in
>> parallel with make -j8 tests ignores the -j option.  I've resorted to
>> invoking ctest with -j8 which works fine.  Any way to normalize the  
>> behavior
>> so that builds and tests behave the same with respect to the -j  
>> option?
>
> AFAIK, you can't.  But I read on this ML that you can do:
>
> make test ARGS='-j8'

Good to know, that will work fine.

Thanks!