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Brad King 161f1f42d6 Help: Clarify 'cmake --build' signature alternatives
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* commit 4f4f2028b8 (Help: Add documentation for buildPresets and
                     testPresets, 2021-01-13, v3.20.0-rc1~51^2~7)
* commit 676ecf0d37 (cmake-presets: Add build and test presets,
                     2020-12-14, v3.20.0-rc1~51^2~6)

used square brackets in the `cmake --build` signature to indicate
non-optional alternatives, which is not a typical convention.
A common convention is to use parentheses instead, but in this
case it is probably clearer to list the two signatures separately.

Fixes: #22413
2021-07-13 09:41:26 -04:00
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2020-10-13 15:11:40 -04:00
2021-01-13 11:04:59 +00:00

CMake Tests Directory
*********************

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  Superseded by ``Tests/RunCMake/``.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.