Switch the build over to using the base test runner to make sure...

build/temp_gyp/googleurl.gyp

Index: build/temp_gyp/googleurl.gyp
===================================================================
--- build/temp_gyp/googleurl.gyp	(revision 75303)
+++ build/temp_gyp/googleurl.gyp	(working copy)
@@ -70,6 +70,8 @@
       'target_name': 'googleurl_unittests',
       'dependencies': [
         'googleurl',
+        '../../base/base.gyp:base_i18n',
+        '../../base/base.gyp:test_support_base',

[Robert Sesek, 2011/02/17 21:44:22]

Was the issue here missing symbols that was causing the crash, or was it the
death test stuff?

[TVL, 2011/02/17 21:52:51]

So the problem was the unittest only started up gtest, yet it uses chromium's
base.  If everything worked, things went fine.  But when things failed, it tries
to call into stuff that wasn't started up.  In release is silently limped along,
but in debug it choked hard.

The death test thing was something else I was fixing.

         '../../testing/gtest.gyp:gtest',
         '../../third_party/icu/icu.gyp:icuuc',
       ],
@@ -79,7 +81,9 @@
         '../../googleurl/src/url_parse_unittest.cc',
         '../../googleurl/src/url_test_utils.h',
         '../../googleurl/src/url_util_unittest.cc',
-        '../../googleurl/src/gurl_test_main.cc',
+        # Make sure base and ICU are started up the 'Chromium way' since the
+        # build is using the Chromium base & ICU.
+        '../../base/test/run_all_unittests.cc',
       ],
       'conditions': [
         ['OS=="linux" or OS=="freebsd"', {