The synopsis added by commit 9d3aa95ca4 (Help: Divide ctest(1) manual
options into sections, 2017-11-08, v3.11.0-rc1~359^2~2) is missing the
actual `--build-and-test` argument! Add it now.
format can be 'human' to print the current text format or 'json-v1' to
print the test object model in json format and is useful for IDEs who
want to gather information about the tests. Defaults to 'human' format.
Print the name of the **cmake** executable in boldface, so that it does
not appear less prominent than other shell commands (which are underlaid
with links). Similarly the other tool manuals.
Since commit v3.0.0-rc1~260^2~14 (ctest: Make the --build-makeprogram
optional for --build-and-test, 2013-11-14), binary dictionary is also
required to run CTest given the option `--build-nocmake`.
Currently, CTest will not initialize any submodules within the already
checked out source tree. Add an option to do so. The use case for not
doing so is that some submodules may not be necessary for the current
test and keeping network usage down may be important.
Add ctest command-line options:
--test-output-size-passed <n>
--test-output-size-failed <n>
to set the amount of test output to store in Test.xml as a command-line
dashboard client.
Add a TestLoad setting to CTest that can be set via a new --test-load
command-line option, CTEST_TEST_LOAD variable, or TEST_LOAD option to
the ctest_test command. Teach cmCTestMultiProcessHandler to measure
the CPU load and avoid starting tests that may take more than the
spare load currently available. The expression
<current_load> + <test_processors> <= <max-load>
must be true to start a new test.
Co-Author: Zack Galbreath <zack.galbreath@kitware.com>
The documentation of this variable in the CTest module is outdated
and has been superseded by the ctest(1) manual. In particular, the
latter mentions that it works with the Ninja generator as well as
makefile generators. Remove the documentation from the CTest module
and replace it with a link to the main variable documentation (which
already references the ctest(1) manual).
The GITUpdateCustom and P4UpdateCustom options take only one command
line with all arguments as a ;-list, not a ;-list of multiple command
lines. Fix the incorrect documentation originally added by commit
v3.1.0-rc1~463^2 (Help: Document ctest dashboard client usage,
2014-05-30).
The modern dashboard server is CDash, not Dart, so update the manual
to talk about CTest as a CDash client. Also drop documentation for
a Dart2-specific option.
The ctest_configure command already reads the CTEST_CMAKE_GENERATOR
variable to get the value for the cmake -G option. Read new variable
CTEST_CMAKE_GENERATOR_PLATFORM to pass on as CMAKE_GENERATOR_PLATFORM.
The "ctest --build-and-test" mode already has "--build-generator" to
specify the -G option to CMake. Add a "--build-generator-platform" option
to specify a value to pass on as CMAKE_GENERATOR_PLATFORM.
This allows ctest_update to get the current version without actually
changing the repository. This is useful when using Jenkins or an
external project to update the source to a specific version, but you
still want the current version to show up in CDash.
In the ctest(1) manual and ctest_start() command documentation, convert
mentions of CTest Script variables to cross-references so they will be
rendered as links.
GenerateBuildCommand now knows how to lookup CMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM or
choose a generator-provided default build tool. Therefore the
--build-makeprogram can now be optional and simply override the
default selection when provided.
Note that with --build-nocmake we now need to load the cache in order to
make the CMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM entry available to GenerateBuildCommand.
Zack Galbreath