Translate Python-based tests to C

This simplifies bootstrapping: now you don't have to build dbus,
build dbus-python (with GLib), and use dbus-python to test dbus.

It also avoids test failures when using facilities like
AddressSanitizer. When libdbus is built with AddressSanitizer, but the
system copies of Python and dbus-python were not, dbus-python will exit
the Python interpreter on load, because libasan wasn't already
initialized. The simplest way to avoid this is to not use Python:
the scripts are not *that* hard to translate into C.

Both of these tests happen to be conditionally compiled for Unix only.
test_activation_forking() relies on code in TestSuiteForkingEchoService
that calls fork(), which can only work on Unix; meanwhile,
test_system_signals() tests the system bus configuration, which is
only relevant to Unix because we don't support using dbus-daemon as
a privilege boundary on Windows (and in any case D-Bus is not a Windows
OS feature, so the system bus cannot be used to communicate with OS
services like it can on most Linux systems).

This is also a partial solution to
<https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus/issues/135>, by reducing the
size of name-test/.

For this to work, we need to build the test-service helper executable
even if embedded tests are disabled.

Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/test/Makefile.am b/test/Makefile.am
index bc87446c..408cf668 100644
--- a/test/Makefile.am
+++ b/test/Makefile.am
@@ -64,7 +64,6 @@ TEST_BINARIES = \
 	test-exit \
 	test-names \
 	test-segfault \
-	test-service \
 	test-shell-service \
 	$(NULL)
 
@@ -145,6 +144,7 @@ nobase_testexec_PROGRAMS =
 nobase_testmeta_DATA =
 
 installable_helpers = \
+	test-service \
 	test-sleep-forever \
 	$(NULL)
 installable_tests = \