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Lei Zhang a43af10a71 Roll src/third_party/pdfium/ dda631d81..b2d4f1104 (7 commits; 2 trivial rolls)
https://pdfium.googlesource.com/pdfium.git/+log/dda631d81103..b2d4f1104c43

Manually roll PDFium and add pdf_enable_fontations_override to keep the
build working.

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  roll-dep src/third_party/pdfium

Bug: pdfium:2107
Change-Id: I749ff6892be5762582524680071ff3f50704f9c9
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/5128772
Reviewed-by: Thomas Anderson <thomasanderson@chromium.org>
Commit-Queue: Thomas Anderson <thomasanderson@chromium.org>
Auto-Submit: Lei Zhang <thestig@chromium.org>
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/main@{#1238418}
2023-12-16 15:54:08 +00:00
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Build overrides in GN

This directory is used to allow different products to customize settings for repos that are DEPS'ed in or shared.

For example: V8 could be built on its own (in a "standalone" configuration), and it could be built as part of Chromium. V8 might define a top-level target, //v8:d8 (a simple executable), that should only be built in the standalone configuration. To figure out whether or not it should be in a standalone configuration, v8 can create a file, build_overrides/v8.gni, that contains a variable, build_standalone_d8 = true. and import it (as import("//build_overrides/v8.gni") from its top-level BUILD.gn file.

Chromium, on the other hand, might not need to build d8, and so it would create its own build_overrides/v8.gni file, and in it set build_standalone_d8 = false.

The two files should define the same set of variables, but the values can vary as appropriate to the needs of the two different builds.

The build.gni file provides a way for projects to override defaults for variables used in //build itself (which we want to be shareable between projects).

TODO(crbug.com/588513): Ideally //build_overrides and, in particular, //build_overrides/build.gni should go away completely in favor of some mechanism that can re-use other required files like //.gn, so that we don't have to keep requiring projects to create a bunch of different files to use GN.