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Brad King 0883ab385a Merge topic 'test-symlink-trees'
ef162bb40b Tests: Extend RunCMake.SymlinkTrees with more symlink layouts
802b76140d Tests: Extend RunCMake.SymlinkTrees to verify paths passed to compiler
b0ac0fbe0e Tests: Extend RunCMake.SymlinkTrees with directory argument variants
6c971b5e93 Tests: Generalize RunCMake.SymlinkTrees implementation
0443bdb8d4 Tests: Simplify RunCMake.SymlinkTrees per-case implementation

Acked-by: Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com>
Merge-request: !7019
2022-02-25 08:12:13 -05:00
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CMake Tests Directory
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This directory contains the CMake test suite.
See also the `CMake Source Code Guide`_.

.. _`CMake Source Code Guide`: ../Help/dev/source.rst

Many tests exist as immediate subdirectories, but some tests
are organized as follows.

* ``CMakeLib/``:
  Source code, used for tests, that links to the ``CMakeLib`` library
  defined over in ``Source/``.

* ``CMakeOnly/``:
  Deprecated.  Tests that run CMake to generate a project but not build it.
  Superseded by ``Tests/RunCMake/``.

* ``Find*/``:
  Tests for specific find modules that can only be run on machines with
  the corresponding packages installed.  They are enabled in
  ``CMakeLists.txt`` by undocumented options used on CI builds.

* ``Module/``:
  Tests for specific CMake modules.

* ``RunCMake/``:
  Tests that run CMake and/or other tools while precisely checking
  their return code and stdout/stderr content.  Useful for testing
  error cases and diagnostic output.