Alexander Neundorf wrote: > 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.
Everything except the EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL targets. >> 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. I don't know, but I hope not. That wouldn't be a good idea because it would try to do N*N things at once instead of N things at once, with make. Thanks, Steve. -- Powered by www.kitware.com Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Kitware offers various services to support the CMake community. For more information on each offering, please visit: CMake Support: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/support.html CMake Consulting: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/consulting.html CMake Training Courses: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/training.html Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
