For the lapack CMake-based build and test system, some of the ctests
can exceed 1500 seconds (the default limit) for special conditions
(e.g, a quadruple-precision build of lapack that can be very slow).
To reduce such issues without forcing users to use the ctest --timeout
<excessive number> option, the lapack developers would like to
increase the default limit substantially above 1500 seconds. Does
anyone here know how to do that?
I guessed that setting CTEST_TEST_TIMEOUT might do that, but when I
experimentally set that to a small number (actually 1) (just before
the first add_test command of another project I am completely familiar
with (PLplot, natch)) the ctests that ran beyond that one second limit
did not error out (i.e., I presume they were still using the 1500
second default). Note, the ctests I am referring to are simply run
using the ctest command from the command line and are not submitted to
a dashboard server.
I presume another way to do it would be to set the TIMEOUT test property
for every ctest, but that constitutes a maintanence issue, i.e., it
is a pretty clumsy way to do it.
So any ideas for setting the default timeout (either higher or lower
than 1500) for ctests would be welcome.
Alan
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Alan W. Irwin
Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).
Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state
implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time
Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting
software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project
(unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net);
and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net).
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