17094eb572 ALIAS: Add test for generator expressions with ALIAS targets
5f8cc64695 ALIAS: Add support for add_dependencies for ALIAS targets
79e421b053 ALIAS: Add support for target_* commands
3b327695aa ALIASED_TARGET: Make property read-only
a121419908 ALIAS: Add support for set_property and set_target_properties commands
Acked-by: Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com>
Merge-request: !12207
The add_dependencies command currently accepts ALIAS targets for
<target-dependencies> which resolve to the referenced target. This further
relaxes the command to accept an ALIAS <target> where the command will
add the dependencies to the target which the alias references.
Now that set_property and set_target_properties support ALIAS targets,
we need to extend support to all the target_* type commands that modify
target properties.
Relaxes target_compile_definitions, target_compile_features,
target_compile_options, target_include_directories,
target_link_directories, target_link_libraries, target_link_options,
target_precompile_headers, and target_sources to now accept ALIAS
targets. These commands set properties on the target which the alias
references.
Currently, getting properties from an ALIAS target retrieves the property
from the target which the alias references while setting properties results
in an error. This relaxes set_property and set_target_properties to
accept ALIAS targets and act on the referenced target, mirroring the get
behavior.
An error is raised when setting ALIAS_GLOBAL or ALIASED_TARGET on an ALIAS
target.
Closes: #19445
Add an --out-of-date option to ctest which runs only those tests with
recorded build dependencies whose timestamps are newer than the timestamp
at which the test last finished.
Fixes: #27614
Extend the test_prep/<test> and test_prep/all build targets, generated
from add_test(BUILD_DEPENDS) when CMAKE_TEST_BUILD_DEPENDS is enabled, to
the Makefile generators. Previously only the Ninja and FASTBuild
generators provided them.
Resolve each test's dependencies in a shared layer so all command-line
generators consume one result. cmTestGenerator now filters target
dependencies to build-system targets and records, for each file
dependency, the single target that produces it as a primary
custom-command output (cmGlobalGenerator::FindOutputOwningTarget). The
Makefile generators emit phony rules in CMakeFiles/Makefile2 depending on
<target>.dir/all, with top-level forwarding rules. Sharing the
resolution also stops Ninja and FASTBuild from emitting a dead test_prep
edge for a non-buildable (e.g. INTERFACE) BUILD_DEPENDS target.
On the Makefile generators a file dependency that no single target
produces, and a test whose name contains ':', cannot be expressed as a
recursive-make rule and are reported with a warning and skipped.
Fixes: #27879
82c9d33e96 function: Set variable ARGNC
d14d0b0b23 function: Change arguments documentation to a definition list
Acked-by: Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com>
Merge-request: !12173
Add an existence check to the `if` command for diagnostic categories,
mirroring the check for policies. Aside from being desirable for
consistency's sake, this will make it easier for users to write logic to
manipulate diagnostics from newer versions of CMake that don't exist
today.
Exclude files and directories matching the given patterns while creating
an archive, using libarchive's matcher for parity with file(ARCHIVE_EXTRACT).
Fixes: #27877.
Omit archive entries matching the given patterns when extracting or
listing. May be combined with PATTERNS; on overlap the exclusion
takes precedence.
Fixes: #27837
f5a0f6478e Merge branch 'backport-instrumentation-data-version-minor' into instrumentation-data-version-minor
dcf146c34d instrumentation: Revise Data Version format
df36317176 instrumentation: Revise Data Version format
Acked-by: Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com>
Merge-request: !12117
Give data version the new format <major>.<minor>, so that
the version can be incremented with the introduction of new
features without bumping the major version.
Add support for loading instrumentation JSON queries of unknown
data versions without error.
Issue: #27833
CMake writes ConfigureCommand and MakeCommand entries into
DartConfiguration.tcl when configuring a project that uses the CTest module.
These values prevented users from being able to use configure/build presets
in dashboard client mode from a pre-configured build directory.
This commit updates ctest_configure() and ctest_build() to ignore
CTEST_CONFIGURE_COMMAND / CTEST_BUILD_COMMAND when a preset is specified.
This allows the requested preset to be honored.
Commit 4f120beea9 (FILE_SET: relax file uniqueness for HEADERS type,
2026-05-10) relaxed the restriction on file uniqueness in file sets, but
did not correctly update all instances of the documentation. Change the
wording to be a bit clearer and update all instances.
Add `test_prep/<test_name>` convenience targets to the ninja generator
to build dependencies of tests, and `test_prep/all` to build the dependencies
of all tests.
Build dependencies of a test include:
- Executables directly invoked by test `COMMAND`.
- Targets mentioned in generator expressionf os test `COMMAND`.
- Anything explicitly listed with the new `BUILD_DEPENDS` argument of `add_test`.
Issue: #27613
