On Thursday 31 October 2013, Olaf Ryder wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I'm looking for ways to speed up CTest runs (the Experimental target). It
> would appear the majority of the time is spent during the build step.
> 
> 1) What exactly is happening during the Experimental build step?
> 2) How does CTest know what targets to build within a complex project?

I think it builds everything.

> 3) Is there a way to get verbose output of what's going on during the
> various steps?

Did you try ctest -V or, ctest -V -VV ?

There is a -j flag for ctest, which at enables parallel testing. Not sure 
whether it enables also parallel building.

Alex
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