add DNDEBUG test case

src/coreComponents/unitTests/CMakeLists.txt

@@ -11,3 +11,4 @@ add_subdirectory( fileIOTests )
 add_subdirectory( fluidFlowTests )
 add_subdirectory( wellsTests )
 add_subdirectory( wavePropagationTests ) 
+add_subdirectory( toolchain )

src/coreComponents/unitTests/toolchain/CMakeLists.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+#
+# Specify list of tests
+#
+
+set( gtest_geosx_tests
+     testDebug.cpp )
+
+set( dependencyList ${parallelDeps} gtest )
+
+if ( GEOSX_BUILD_SHARED_LIBS )
+  set (dependencyList ${dependencyList} geosx_core )
+else()
+  set (dependencyList ${dependencyList} ${geosx_core_libs} )
+endif()
+
+#
+# Add gtest C++ based tests
+#
+foreach(test ${gtest_geosx_tests})
+    get_filename_component( test_name ${test} NAME_WE )
+
+    blt_add_executable( NAME ${test_name}
+                        SOURCES ${test}
+                        OUTPUT_DIR ${TEST_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY}
+                        DEPENDS_ON ${dependencyList} )
+
+    blt_add_test( NAME ${test_name}
+                  COMMAND ${test_name} )
+
+  if(CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE STREQUAL "Debug")
+    set_tests_properties(${test_name} PROPERTIES WILL_FAIL TRUE)
+  endif()
+
+endforeach()

src/coreComponents/unitTests/toolchain/testDebug.cpp

@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+/*
+ * ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1-only
+ *
+ * Copyright (c) 2018-2020 Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC
+ * Copyright (c) 2018-2020 The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
+ * Copyright (c) 2018-2020 Total, S.A
+ * Copyright (c) 2020-     GEOS Contributors
+ * All right reserved
+ *
+ * See top level LICENSE, COPYRIGHT, CONTRIBUTORS, NOTICE, and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS files for details.
+ * ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ */
+
+int main( int, char * * )
+{
+  /*
+   * This test guards against spurious propagation of -DNDEBUG preprocessor flag (HDF5 in our case),
+   * which has the effect of disabling LvArray assertions:
+   * instead, we always check that this test fails in CMake Debug mode, whilst it should always
+   * pass in RelWithDebInfo or Release builds.
+   */
+#ifdef NDEBUG
+  return 0;
+#else
+  return 1;
+#endif
+
+}