[vtk-developers] VTK without testing

[Bill Lorensen]

Mine was a fresh build tree.
ctest version 2.8.3
cmake version 2.8.3

I'll try with the latest cmake/ctest



On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Marcus D. Hanwell <
marcus.hanwell at kitware.com> wrote:

> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Marcus D. Hanwell
> <marcus.hanwell at kitware.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> Folks,
> >>
> >> There have been a few user comments about VTK6 regarding testing.
> >>
> >> I've started to look at the issues.
> >>
> >> My first attempt. Build VTK6 with BUILD_TESTING Off and BUILD_EXAMPLES
> Off.
> >>
> >> VTK6 builds find. But I run ctest and VTK6 tries to run over 700 tests.
> Only
> >> the header tests pass.
> >>
> >> Why is VTK6 generating any tests if BUILD_TESTING is Off. I suspect some
> >> automatic magic is the culprit.
> >>
> > I was going to take a look at this before you volunteered, I worked on
> > some of this logic and would be happy to dig into it a little if Brad
> > hasn't already figured it out ;-)
> >
> On further investigation I don't see the issues reported. The tests
> you see are likely an artifact of CTest and CMake getting out of sync
> Bill - if I do a default cmake run and then disable build testing then
> ctest will try to run tests that don't exist. If I run CMake as
> follows,
>
> cmake -G "Ninja" -DBUILD_TESTING:BOOL=OFF ~/src/VTK
>
> Then I see,
>
> $ ctest
> *********************************
> No test configuration file found!
> *********************************
>
> As expected. The version of VTK I built I also linked to from
> MongoChem, which uses the Qt and charting components in VTK with no
> issue. I will dig into whether this is some break in logic when the
> cache still has some testing settings hanging around from the initial
> run of CMake. Looking at the CMake code it looks like all of the
> testing calls are guarded correctly with if(BUILD_TESTING) ...
>
> Marcus
>



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