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Brad King 597e421ba3 Help: Remove incorrect Windows env var limitation from CTEST_PARALLEL_LEVEL
In commit 5de1e21659 (ctest: Allow passing -j without value to choose a
contextual default, 2024-03-06, v3.29.0-rc4~10^2) I misdiagnosed the
reason that the test could not set an empty environment variable on
Windows.  It is actually a limitation of `set(ENV{VAR})` inherited from
its implementation using `_wputenv`.  Process environment blocks can
contain empty environment variables.

Issue: #27285
2025-10-09 09:46:01 -04:00

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CTEST_PARALLEL_LEVEL
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.. include:: include/ENV_VAR.rst
Specify the number of tests for CTest to run in parallel.
For example, if ``CTEST_PARALLEL_LEVEL`` is set to 8, CTest will run
up to 8 tests concurrently as if ``ctest`` were invoked with the
:option:`--parallel 8 <ctest --parallel>` option.
.. versionchanged:: 3.29
The value may be empty, or ``0``, to let ctest use a default level of
parallelism, or unbounded parallelism, respectively, as documented by
the :option:`ctest --parallel` option.
CTest will interpret a whitespace-only string as empty.
In CMake 3.28 and earlier, an empty or ``0`` value was equivalent to ``1``.
See :manual:`ctest(1)` for more information on parallel test execution.