Re: [boost] CMake and Boost Build tests

Subject: Re: [boost] CMake and Boost Build tests
From: paul (pfultz2_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-07-26 21:13:53

On Wed, 2017-07-26 at 21:48 +0100, Roger Leigh via Boost wrote:
> On 26/07/17 21:28, Edward Diener via Boost wrote:
> > 
> > On 7/26/2017 3:33 PM, Robert Ramey via Boost wrote:
> > > 
> > > On 7/26/17 11:49 AM, Edward Diener via Boost wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > I couldn't make the compile-fail and run-fail targets to work so IÂ 
> > > just removed them from the cmake test suite.  So if your thinking that 
> > > CMake has a ways to go to be able to offer what we expect, you're right.
> > So you are saying that you cannot run a unit test with CMake that is 
> > meant to show a failure. Wow, what a brilliant system !
> ctest itself treats a nonzero return as failure.  It's pretty trivial to 
> run a wrapper to invert the status for expected failures, and customise 
> the test running in any way you see fit.  See the EXPECT_FAIL lines in
> 
> https://github.com/apache/xerces-c/blob/f7654ee16b1dc2fb6e2b68777895c5384cd5
> 1c28/tests/CMakeLists.txt#L176
> 
> and the wrapper logic in
> 
> https://github.com/apache/xerces-c/blob/f7654ee16b1dc2fb6e2b68777895c5384cd5
> 1c28/cmake/RunTest.cmake#L45
> 
> as one way to do this.

There's really no need for that because you can just set the test property
WILL_FAIL to true, like I showed in my previous email.