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Useful skills

• Experience with autotools build systems

Task

The test utility library in https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tree/master/src/test/util is currently only a folder and each module in there is compiled for each target that uses it. For example, setup_common is compiled 27 times (for the fuzz suite) and another 3 times for the other tests (bench, unit test, gui). To speed up the compilation and clarify build dependencies, this folder should be transformed into an actual library.

Because our test binaries should test as much as possible, this library may depend on any Bitcoin Core library or third party library (except boost-unit-test). It should be built when at least one target that requires it is built, skipped otherwise.

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