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| author | Egor Tensin <Egor.Tensin@gmail.com> | 2021-04-07 01:27:21 +0300 |
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| committer | Egor Tensin <Egor.Tensin@gmail.com> | 2021-04-07 01:27:21 +0300 |
| commit | c6e99acef81208ae679fe4234b6b35e111f91789 (patch) | |
| tree | 561d96103ad4d1ab5e198ced939935bc62b18170 /docs/ctest-driver.md | |
| parent | ctest-driver.py: add --fail-regex, fix --pass-regex (diff) | |
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tools: update usage information, add docs/ entries
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diff --git a/docs/ctest-driver.md b/docs/ctest-driver.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..af7c3b2 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/ctest-driver.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +CTest suffers from at least two issues, in particular with regard to its +PASS_REGULAR_EXPRESSION feature: + +1. The regular expression syntax used by CMake is deficient. +2. The exit code of a test is ignored if one of the regexes matches. + +`ctest-driver.py` tries to fix them. + + $ python3 path/to/tools/ctest-driver.py run --pass-regex OK --fail-regex Fail -- path/to/executable arg1 arg2 + +In addition, it's a cross-platform `grep`: + + $ python3 path/to/tools/ctest-driver.py grep --pass-regex OK --fail-regex Fail -- path/to/logfile.log |