Test for CVS plugin

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 16.04.07 07:21:39, Matt Rogers wrote:
> On Monday 16 April 2007 00:56, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > On 15.04.07 18:14:23, Matt Rogers wrote:
> > > On Sunday 15 April 2007 13:38, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > > > Turns out this is a bug in CMake (according to Thiago), make test
> > > > doesn't build the tests, so you have to run make <testname> first.
> > > > I'll take this to the cmake guys.
> > >
> > > make test is not supposed to build the tests under CMake. It never has.
> > > That's what enabling KDE4_BUILD_TESTS is for.
> >
> > AFAIK thats where you're wrong. Tests are now disabled by default and
> > IMHO that only makes sense if a make test run also builds the test.
> > Always building the tests doesn't make any sense, because that only
> > increases compile time - when you have to build multiple parts of
> > kdevelop and run make from the kdevelop top-builddir then the huge
> > amount of cmake tests that are either compiled or maybe just re-linked
> > slows down the compilation a lot.
> >
> > Andreas
> 
> Right. KDE4_BUILD_TESTS has always been off by default. So the current 
> situation is no different than when we started porting to CMake. But to say 
> that there's been a regression in previous behavior is wrong. Currently, make 
> test is not supposed to build any tests. It never has.

Well, maybe bug is a bit too much, but certainly this is undocumented
and IMHO unexpected. If I call make test to run tests I'd expect that
the buildsystem builds all tests that need building. Why should I need
to type make test1 test2 test3 ... test10000 every time (or change a
script every time a testcase is added/removed/changed).

> That is the whole reason KDE4_BUILD_TESTS exists. 

Well, that define adds the test targets to the default targets which is
different from what I want (and probably others as a google search
showed). I don't want to always build+relink the tests on each
invocation of make in a certain subdir, I'd like to build the tests once
the code they test compiles and run the tests after that. Thats what
make test should do IMHO.

Andreas

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