[Insight-developers] Request for new target: ITKHeaderTests

[Matt McCormick]

Hi Bill,

A patch is available here:

http://review.source.kitware.com/#change,2669

I think the ITKHeaderTests target is a better approach than the
previous behavior of always rebuilding during tests.

Thanks,
Matt


On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 6:56 PM, Matthew McCormick (thewtex)
<matt at mmmccormick.com> wrote:
> Another option may be to keep the current behavior, but add a custom
> target that is not added to ALL, so the header tests can be
> regenerated and built on request.  I will work on a patch for this.
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
>
> On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 6:22 PM, Matt McCormick
> <matt.mccormick at kitware.com> wrote:
>> Hi Bill,
>>
>> I think that is a good idea, but I am not sure how to implement it
>> correctly..  Right now it regenerates the tests when CMake is run,
>> even though that is an unusual way of doing things.
>>
>> I though about an add_custom_command, but it is difficult to specify
>> the dependencies correctly.  The test should be run when headers are
>> new or moved around, which cannot be know apriori.
>>
>> If we do add_custom_target and add it to make all, it will build all
>> the header tests on every make, which can be time consuming and
>> annoying.  But, if you still think this is the way to go or if you
>> have other ideas, please let me know.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Matt
>>
>> On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Matt,
>>>
>>> The ITK header tests are an excellent addition to our black-box testing. It
>>> would be great if there was a target, perhaps called, ITKHeaderTests.
>>>
>>> We have a target ITKData which is very convenient.
>>>
>>> Having a new target for the header tests would avoid having to do a "make"
>>> at the top level while debugging new modules.
>>>
>>> Bill
>>>
>>>
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