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authorBrad King <brad.king@kitware.com>2014-05-27 09:46:39 -0400
committerCMake Topic Stage <kwrobot@kitware.com>2014-05-27 09:46:39 -0400
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Merge topic 'doc-CTEST_BUILD_FLAGS'
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@@ -22,3 +22,8 @@ of build errors and warnings detected.
The APPEND option marks results for append to those previously
submitted to a dashboard server since the last ctest_start. Append
semantics are defined by the dashboard server in use.
+
+If set the contents of the variable CTEST_BUILD_FLAGS are passed as
+additional arguments to the underlying build command. This can e.g. be
+used to trigger a parallel build using the -j option of make. See
+:module:`ProcessorCount` for an example.