Merge pull request #5729 from Stranger6667/issue-5115

Do not treat warnings as errors during ``pytest_configure``.

changelog/5115.bugfix.rst

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Warnings issued during ``pytest_configure`` are explicitly not treated as errors, even if configured as such, because it otherwise completely breaks pytest.

src/_pytest/config/__init__.py

@@ -642,6 +642,8 @@ class Config:
     def _do_configure(self):
         assert not self._configured
         self._configured = True
+        with warnings.catch_warnings():
+            warnings.simplefilter("default")
             self.hook.pytest_configure.call_historic(kwargs=dict(config=self))
 
     def _ensure_unconfigure(self):

testing/test_warnings.py

@@ -645,3 +645,21 @@ def test_group_warnings_by_message(testdir):
     warning_code = 'warnings.warn(UserWarning("foo"))'
     assert warning_code in result.stdout.str()
     assert result.stdout.str().count(warning_code) == 1
+
+
+def test_pytest_configure_warning(testdir, recwarn):
+    """Issue 5115."""
+    testdir.makeconftest(
+        """
+        def pytest_configure():
+            import warnings
+
+            warnings.warn("from pytest_configure")
+        """
+    )
+
+    result = testdir.runpytest()
+    assert result.ret == 5
+    assert "INTERNALERROR" not in result.stderr.str()
+    warning = recwarn.pop()
+    assert str(warning.message) == "from pytest_configure"