Some tests are failing when using the debug configuration (-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug) on Debian

[mantonenco]

I use the master branch:

commit ca102b1
Merge: 50f3baf a2451c7
Author: Gennadiy Civil gennadiycivil@users.noreply.github.com
Date: Thu Aug 3 16:49:13 2017 -0400

The following tests FAILED:
29 - gtest_break_on_failure_unittest (Failed)
30 - gtest_catch_exceptions_test (Failed)
31 - gtest_color_test (Failed)
32 - gtest_env_var_test (Failed)
33 - gtest_filter_unittest (Failed)
34 - gtest_help_test (Failed)
35 - gtest_list_tests_unittest (Failed)
36 - gtest_output_test (Failed)
37 - gtest_shuffle_test (Failed)
38 - gtest_throw_on_failure_test (Failed)
39 - gtest_uninitialized_test (Failed)
40 - gtest_xml_outfiles_test (Failed)
41 - gtest_xml_output_unittest (Failed)

Note that if I use the default build configuration (without -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug) then everything is OK:

cmake -Dgtest_build_tests=ON ..
all tests pass (100% tests passed, 0 tests failed out of 41).

System details:

uname -a
Linux debian 4.9.0-3-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.30-2+deb9u2 (2017-06-26) x86_64 GNU/Linux
gcc --version
gcc (Debian 6.3.0-18) 6.3.0 20170516
cmake --version
cmake version 3.7.2

I attached the output of 'cmake' and 'make test' commands.

cmake-output.txt
make-test-output.txt

[Limbo999]

Hi,
I have the same problem

Total Test time (real) =   4.84 sec

The following tests FAILED:
   29 - gtest_break_on_failure_unittest (Failed)
   30 - gtest_catch_exceptions_test (Failed)
   31 - gtest_color_test (Failed)
   32 - gtest_env_var_test (Failed)
   33 - gtest_filter_unittest (Failed)
   34 - gtest_help_test (Failed)
   35 - gtest_list_tests_unittest (Failed)
   36 - gtest_output_test (Failed)
   37 - gtest_shuffle_test (Failed)
   38 - gtest_throw_on_failure_test (Failed)
   39 - gtest_uninitialized_test (Failed)
   40 - gtest_xml_outfiles_test (Failed)
   41 - gtest_xml_output_unittest (Failed)
Errors while running CTest
make: *** [test] Error 8
[Finished in 4.9s with exit code 2]

What are we doing wrong? I link gtest_main and gmock_main and my tests are passing.

I am on macOS Sierra Version 10.12.6 using

$ clang --version
Apple LLVM version 8.1.0 (clang-802.0.42)
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin16.7.0
Thread model: posix
InstalledDir: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin

[Limbo999]

What I did was adding "include(CTest)" in my top-level CMakeLists.txt file. Now it shows me only my test files (see also https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13550153/no-tests-found-when-using-gtest-with-cmake-ctest and https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v2.8.10/cmake.html#module:CTest).

[ghost]

I can reproduce this on Linux with gcc.

When running ctest --verbose -R gtest_break_on_failure_unittest, python complains it couldn't find build/googlemock/gtest/Debug/gtest_break_on_failure_unittest_ - seems there is the Debug too much in the executable path, i.e. python is given a wrong path to the build directory.

[ghost]

The problem seems to be located in googletest/cmake/internal_utils.cmake where it is assumed that $<CONFIGURATION> is part of the build directory path, which isn't true on make based cmake build generators.