For testing the USDT tracepoint API in the functional tests we
require:
- that we are on a Linux system*
- that Bitcoin Core is compiled with tracepoints
- that bcc and the the Python bcc module [0] is installed
- that we run the tests with the required permissions**
otherwise we skip the tests.
*: We currently only support tracepoints on Linux. Tracepoints are
not compiled on other platforms.
**: Currently, we check for root permissions via getuid == 0. It's
unclear if it's even possible to run the tests a non-root user
with e.g. CAP_BPF, CAP_PERFMON, and access to /sys/kernel/debug/
tracing/. Anyone running these tests as root should carefully
review them first and then run them in a disposable VM.
[0]: https://github.com/iovisor/bcc/blob/master/INSTALL.md
This option replaces --with-boost-process
This prepares external signer support to be disabled by default.
It adds a configure option to enable this feature and to check
if Boost::Process is present.
This also exposes ENABLE_EXTERNAL_SIGNER to the test suite via test/config.ini
The functional tests and util tests both require a config file that is
generated by ./configure. This commit merges those two config
files into a single configuration file that can be shared by both tests.
The config from config.ini is put into a Namespace object to maintain
the interface with bctest.py. A future commit could change this
interface to use a dictionary instead of a namespace.
