Merge topic 'doc-ctest-interactive-popups'
cf8710da74 Help: Document ctest(1) --interactive-debug-mode limitation
Acked-by: Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com>
Acked-by: Michael Hirsch <michael@scivision.dev>
Merge-request: !6211
diff --git a/Help/manual/ctest.1.rst b/Help/manual/ctest.1.rst
index 72ef259..ab819f9 100644
--- a/Help/manual/ctest.1.rst
+++ b/Help/manual/ctest.1.rst
@@ -322,11 +322,13 @@
Set the interactive mode to ``0`` or ``1``.
This option causes CTest to run tests in either an interactive mode
- or a non-interactive mode. On Windows this means that in
- non-interactive mode, all system debug pop up windows are blocked.
- In dashboard mode (``Experimental``, ``Nightly``, ``Continuous``), the default
- is non-interactive. When just running tests not for a dashboard the
- default is to allow popups and interactive debugging.
+ or a non-interactive mode. In dashboard mode (``Experimental``, ``Nightly``,
+ ``Continuous``), the default is non-interactive. In non-interactive mode,
+ the environment variable :envvar:`DASHBOARD_TEST_FROM_CTEST` is set.
+
+ Prior to CMake 3.11, interactive mode on Windows allowed system debug
+ popup windows to appear. Now, due to CTest's use of ``libuv`` to launch
+ test processes, all system debug popup windows are always blocked.
``--no-label-summary``
Disable timing summary information for labels.
