Running unit tests on OSX

Sat Jan 5 16:02:00 CET 2008

I noticed while trying to run some unit tests I'm sure ran fine a couple 
of months ago, cmake/ctest was no longer able to find the executables 
for them on OSX. Some more investigating showed that some change a few 
months ago (the one that deprecated kde4_add_test_executable) changed 
the semantics of kde4_add_unit_test to no longer always imply a NOGUI, 
but have it as an optional parameter. With this change the executables 
no longer end up in ${EXECUTABLE_OUTPUT_PATH}/${_test_NAME} but in 
${EXECUTABLE_OUTPUT_PATH}/${_test_NAME}.app/Contents/MacOS/${_test_NAME}, 
so obviously the executables can't be found when running 'make test'. Of 
course the easiest fix is to simply change all calls to 
kde4_add_unit_test and add a NOGUI parameter, but I doubt that was 
intended. I'm not sure if it makes any sense to have GUI unit tests, but 
since it apparently is allowed, I think it should also be possible to 
run them. The attached patch should make this possible I think, but 
perhaps I'm missing something and this should be fixed some other way?

Marijn Kruisselbrink
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