The point of this was to be able to build bitcoin-tx and bitcoin-wallet without libevent, see #18504.
Now that we use our own implementation of urlDecode this is not needed anymore.
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Specifying this argument overrides the path location for test_bitcoin;
it becomes <datadir>/test_common_Bitcoin Core/<testname>/datadir. Also,
this directory isn't removed after the test completes. This can make it
easier for developers to study the results of a test (see the state of
the data directory after the test runs), and also (for example) have an
editor open on debug.log to monitor it across multiple test runs instead
of having to re-open a different pathname each time.
Example usage (note the "--" is needed):
test_bitcoin --run_test=getarg_tests/boolarg -- \
-testdatadir=/somewhere/mydatadir
This will create (if necessary) and use the data directory:
/somewhere/mydatadir/test_common_Bitcoin Core/getarg_tests/boolarg/datadir
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Achieve this by adding a MAIN_FUNCTION macro, consolidating the docs, and
introducing the macro across our distributed binaries.
Also update the docs to explain that anyone using binutils < 2.36 is
effected by this issue. Release builds are not, because they use binutils
2.37. Currently LTS Linux distros, like Ubuntu Focal, ship with 2.34.
https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/binutils
Don't require urlDecode function in wallet code since urlDecode implementation
currently uses libevent. Just call urlDecode indirectly though URL_DECODE
function pointer constant if available.
In bitcoind and bitcoin-qt, URL_DECODE is implemented and used to interpret RPC
wallet requests. In bitcoin-wallet, URL_DECODE is null to avoid depending on
libevent.
