Re: [boost] CMake and Boost Build tests

Subject: Re: [boost] CMake and Boost Build tests
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-07-27 21:26:59

AMDG

On 07/27/2017 06:43 AM, Florent Castelli via Boost wrote:
> 
> It is possible to do "compile" by creating a regular static library
> target with that file and then invoking "cmake --build . --target
> <compile test name>". Compile failures can be done similarly and check
> they fail.
> Link and Link-fail can be done the same way using actual binaries that
> are built, but not run.
> 
> <snip>
> 
> The problem is that some build tools will not support parallel
> invocations (Ninja doesn't for example, see
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ninja-build/4VP7whvWSH8 ) and
> thus running tests would be need to be linearized or moved to make,
> which should support that scenario better.
> 

  Whoa.  I always thought that this recursive CMake
invocation was a bit odd, but you're saying that it's
basically a hack that isn't really supported.  Is
there any solution to this?

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe