Review Request 122206: [kio] Make tests optional

[Michael Palimaka]

> On March 17, 2015, 3:37 a.m., Albert Vaca Cintora wrote:
> > I know this is merged already but this patch is being applied to every KDE package and I want to keep the discussion in a single place.
> > 
> > We already have a toggle option in CMake that is "BUILD_TESTING". If Gentoo wants to not build the tests (I'm not judging if they should, let them be free to do it), they can just set BUILD_TESTING to OFF. I understand that CMake will still try to find Qt5Test and fail, but here is where I think we got it wrong:
> > 
> > This patch does the following:
> > if (Qt5Test is not found) 
> >     BUILD_TESTING = OFF
> > 
> > What I think this patch should be doing is this:
> > if (BUILD_TESTING == OFF) 
> >     Don't look for Qt5Test
> > 
> > Did I miss something or this seems more reasonable to you guys as well?

One of the original versions of these test patches looked something like:

    if (BUILD_TESTING)
        add_subdirectory(autotests)
    endif ()
    
with `find_package(Qt5Test)` inside the autotests directory. While this is used a bit in frameworks, it was rejected from a lot of plasma packages because it relies on a magic variable (although it is defined by ECM).

As a result there's a whole range of approaches across frameworks/plasma/apps all doing the same thing. It would be nice if we could agree on something and be consistent.


- Michael


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On Feb. 7, 2015, 12:14 a.m., Andreas Sturmlechner wrote:
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> (Updated Feb. 7, 2015, 12:14 a.m.)
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> Review request for KDE Frameworks.
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> Repository: kio
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> Description
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> [kio] Make tests optional
> This is a small patch to CMakeLists.txt to only depend on Qt5Test if BUILD_TESTING.
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> Diffs
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>   CMakeLists.txt c1ed03f6cac648517828aec60e896baf9fbcfd9d 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/122206/diff/
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> Testing
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> Thanks,
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> Andreas Sturmlechner
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