On Fri, 2019-05-10 at 12:06 -0500, Dustyn Blasig wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm curious if anyone has had success allowing two testing paths to > coexist well. > > Currently, we are using CTest to run our test executables with `make > test`. However, on our Jenkins system, the build machines have the > whole development stack but the test machines do not. So we need a > way to package up the tests in a way that the test machines can > simply run some generated script to do the equivalent of what CTest > would do. > > My current thought is to generate OS specific scripts `make test` > depends on and runs. These scripts can get installed through `make > install` if ENABLE_TEST_INSTALL is set, and then the test machine can > run the installed scripts. The tricky part is building up the > hierarchy of scripts in such a way that the tester just needs to run > "test.sh" or "test.bat" at the top-level of the install hierarchy. > > Any comments and suggestions greatly appreciated! If you at least have CMake/CTest installed on the test machines (even if you don't have compilers, libraries, etc.), then you can create a CMake project that doesn't build any code, but instead runs tests against a set of external executables. The build process for CMake itself has a mechanism to do exactly this: if you configure CMake with -DCMake_TEST_EXTERNAL_CMAKE=path/to/bin, then it will execute the test suite against the external CMake executable without building any code. You could do something similar in your own project: add an option to instead run the test suite against an set of external excutables instead of building them. Hope that helps! Kyle
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