Fixed formatting as requested on https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/7589
Description:
Documentation was unclear in this section and could be interpreted to mean that boost was not a hard requirement for older Ubuntu versions.
Related: #7587
- There is no libboost-base-dev, no idea how I ended up with this
- Without that, installing separate boost packages works fine on both
Ubuntu 14.04 and Debian 7 (tested on VMs), this did not use to be
the case, AFAIK.
- Add a missing 'sudo' for consistency
- Need `bsdmainutils` for `hexdump` (for the tests)
d528025 Revert "rpc-tests: re-enable rpc-tests for Windows" (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
1e700c9 doc: update deps in build-unix.md after libevent (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
26c9b83 Move windows socket init to utility function (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
4be0b08 libevent: Windows reuseaddr workaround in depends (Cory Fields)
3a174cd Fix race condition between starting HTTP server thread and setting EventBase() (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
6d2bc22 Document options for new HTTP/RPC server in --help (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
be33f3f Implement RPCTimerHandler for Qt RPC console (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
57d85d9 doc: mention SSL support dropped for RPC in release notes (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
40b556d evhttpd implementation (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
ee2a42b tests: GET requests cannot have request body, use POST in rest.py (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
6e996d3 tests: fix qt payment test (Cory Fields)
3140ef9 build: build-system changes for libevent (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
a9af234 libevent: add depends (Cory Fields)
6a21dd5 Remove rpc_boostasiotocnetaddr test (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
8f9301c qa: Remove -rpckeepalive tests from httpbasics (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
51fcfc0 doc: remove documentation for rpcssl (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
If a user hasn't ready run autogen.sh, configure doesn't yet exist. Do the instructions seem to presume you have already built bitcoin? I don't think they do.
Would stifle beginners.
Update build-unix.md
It is unreasonable to ask to change the global package configuration
just to build a package. Not only that, this is potentially harmful to the system.
Also do a few punctuation fixes in REST-interface.md.
Bitcoin core should work with any remotely recent boost version
if a proper build environment is present. Remove a confusing comment
from the build documentation.
There is no need to use any specific version of boost on Linux/Unix.
Even 1.37 should still work.
Also the mention of boost-dev doesn't belong after adding oldstable.
Remove it. libboost-all-dev is already mentioned earlier.
Amir Abrams