[Dune-devel] 'make test' vs. 'ctest'

[Christoph Grüninger]

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Dear Oliver,
'ctest' is a tool provided by the CMake makers to offer a simple
command line tool for test execution. To have serious testing a proper
tool like CDash, Jenkins, or what we have integrated in our GitLab.
'make test' is a poor wrapper to call ctest. It might be handy and if
you seldom touch CMake it might be convenient to stay within the world
of your build tool.
So in doubt use ctest.

This is all a matter of CMake and no decision from Dune. If our
documentation states otherwise, we should update it. It was written
under the impression of helping people to switch from Autotools.

Bye
Christoph


Am 10.08.2018 um 16:37 schrieb Oliver Sander:
> Dear Dune,
> 
> I am trying to understand the build system a little better, and I
> have just learned from looking at the code that the 'make test'
> target is really nothing more than a call to 'ctest' (with one
> argument the necessity of which is not clear to me).  What is the
> reason for having 'make test'?  Why not expect people to call
> 'ctest' directly like for other cmake projects?
> 
> Thanks, Oliver
> 
> 
> 
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