This switches most tests over to use pytest as the runner instead of unittest (taking
advantage of the fact that pytest can run unittest based tests).
There were a couple tests that had failures when swithing to pytest:
config/tests/unit-expandlibs.py
xpcom/idl-parser/xpidl/runtests.py
For these tests, I added a runwith='unittest' argument so that they still run the
same way as before. Once we fix them to use pytest, the unittest logic in mozunit.py
can be deleted.
MozReview-Commit-ID: Gcsz6z8MeOi
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extra : rebase_source : 3c762422ce0af54cbbe7d9fc20085a2d1ebe7057
Currently, when there is both an expandlibs descriptor and an actual static
library, expandlibs picks the static library. This has the side effect that
if there are object files in the static library that aren't directly used,
they're dropped when linking, even when they export symbols that would be
exported in the final linked binary.
In most cases in the code base, files are not dropped that way. The most
notable counter-example is xpcomglue, where actually not dropping files
leads to link failure because of missing symbols those files reference
(yes, that would tend to say the glue is broken in some way).
On the opposite side, there is mozglue, which does have both a descriptor
and a static library (the latter being necessary for the SDK), and that
linking as a static library drops files that shouldn't be dropped (like
jemalloc). We're currently relying on -Wl,--whole-archive for those files
not to be dropped, but that won't really be possible without much hassle
in a world where mozglue dependencies live in moz.build land.
Switching expandlibs to use descriptors when they exist, even when there
is a static library (so, the opposite of the current behavior) allows to
drop -Wl,--whole-archive and prepare for a better future. However, as
mentioned, xpcomglue does still require to be linked through the static
library, so we need to make it a static library only.
To achieve that, we make NO_EXPAND_LIBS now actually mean no expandlibs
and use that to build the various different xpcomglues.
Andrew Halberstadt
Mike Hommey
Yati Sagade
Ed Morley
Ryan VanderMeulen
Michael Wu