On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 4:13 AM, Marcel Loose <lo...@astron.nl> wrote:
> Hi all, > > A colleague of mine reported a bug in our CMake-base build system when > doing a parallel build of multiple targets where one of the targets is > 'test'. > > <quote> > Running 'make -j16 tMutex test' (or any test other than tMutex) > for example will result in building tMutex in parallel to > testing it. > > Expected behaviour is first building tMutex, followed by running > the tests. > </quote> > > Is this indeed a bug? Either in our build system or in CMake? > AFAIK it is not possible to define dependencies between the 'test' > target and the target to build the test program. Correct? > > Best regards, > Marcel Loose. > > > -- > Marcel Loose > Senior Software Engineer, Computing Group R&D, Astron, the Netherlands > > _______________________________________________ > Powered by www.kitware.com > > Visit other Kitware open-source projects at > http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html > > Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: > http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ > > Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: > http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake > To the best of my knowledge you can only do a parallel make of one target at a time. The best way to do what you want is to do two parallel make runs in sequence, like this: make -j16 tMutex make -j16 test The test target is defined by CMake, though, and runs all tests. HTH, David
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