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Brad King a1b71112d1 Merge topic 'configure-log'
6c40e0b25e ConfigureLog: Version individual events instead of the whole log
048a02d5bb ConfigureLog: Log try_compile and try_run checks
746c776caf ConfigureLog: Add infrastructure for structured configure event logging
e8b8d82cbf Tests: Generalize RunCMake expectation component names
8d29a0bda6 cmTryRunCommand: Factor out stdout/stderr capture conditions
fdda4095a3 cmCoreTryCompile: Return more semantic information from compile step

Acked-by: Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com>
Tested-by: buildbot <buildbot@kitware.com>
Merge-request: !8017
2022-12-17 08:44:50 -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  Superseded by ``Tests/RunCMake/``.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.