Made the public test setup more reliable

- Switched the GoogleTest fallback to a pinned Git checkout instead of a brittle zip download
- Made the test helper rerun CMake setup every time before it builds
- Let broken or half-finished build folders recover cleanly

Author: byteshiftlabs

CMakeLists.txt

@@ -129,9 +129,9 @@ if(ENABLE_TESTING)
     message(STATUS "GTest not found via package manager; fetching v1.14.0")
     FetchContent_Declare(
       googletest
-        GIT_REPOSITORY https://github.com/google/googletest.git
-        GIT_TAG f8d7d77c06936315286eb55f8de22cd23c188571
-        GIT_SHALLOW TRUE
+      GIT_REPOSITORY https://github.com/google/googletest.git
+      GIT_TAG f8d7d77c06936315286eb55f8de22cd23c188571
+      GIT_SHALLOW TRUE
     )
     set(gtest_force_shared_crt ON CACHE BOOL "" FORCE)
     FetchContent_MakeAvailable(googletest)

run_tests.sh

@@ -3,9 +3,7 @@
 set -euo pipefail
 BUILD_DIR="build"
 
-if [ ! -d "$BUILD_DIR" ]; then
-  cmake -S . -B "$BUILD_DIR" -DENABLE_TESTING=ON
-fi
+cmake -S . -B "$BUILD_DIR" -DENABLE_TESTING=ON
 cmake --build "$BUILD_DIR" --target gates_tests -j "${JOBS:-4}"
 # Run discovered tests (gtest_discover_tests creates them at build time)
 ctest --test-dir "$BUILD_DIR" --output-on-failure "$@"