On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 5:05 PM, Tom Browder <tom.brow...@gmail.com> wrote: > When scanning the top-level CMakeLists.tx file (rev 66618), I saw an > entry to add the GNU standard "make check" target, so I gave it a try. > I assumed it would be an alias for "make test" but the tests run were > not the same--a bit confusing! > > make test: 758 tests (2 failed) > > make check: 738 tests (0 failed)
Tom, make check is in fact deliberately *not* an alias for make test, for two reasons. The first is that not all CTest tests defined in BRL-CAD are expected to be working. For example, there are some regression tests that are in various stages of development that are known not to be ready, but where the CTest bits are hooked up for testing. make check runs only those that "should" work. The second is that make test as defined by CMake does *not* build the dependencies for a given test - for example, a regression test that depends on mged that is run by make test will not first check to be sure that mged was actually built. make check does check. So, while you can't run "make test" to build just what is needed to run the tests and the tests themselves (what I think of as the "minimal test build") make check does allow for that. Cheers, CY ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ BRL-CAD Developer mailing list brlcad-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/brlcad-devel
