Instead of maintaining not-easily-tested instructions for building BerkeleyDB
in doc/build-unix.md, package the installation as a script in contrib/. This
allows shared usage from a number of contexts, e.g. Docker.
Thanks to @jonasschnelli, @laanwj for feedback.
e91b96192 Create dependencies.md, and link dependencies file from README & build docs (flack)
Pull request description:
As @fanquake mentioned in #8639, this should probably be a file in `doc/`, so I went ahead and pulled the issue text via the github API and dumped it into a file. No modifications made, except one spelling fix. This makes the info easier to find, and it will get a proper version history, too.
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python3 is required for running the unit tests on macOS, Ubuntu and Fedora.
Without python3 installed, 'make check' fails because /test/util/bitcoin-util-test.py fails to find python3.
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.
The year is 2014. All supported operating systems have IPv6 support,
most certainly at build time (this doesn't mean that IPv6 is configured,
of course).
If noone is exercising the functionality to disable it, that means it
doesn't get tested, and IMO it's better to get rid of it.
(it's also not used consistently in RPC/boost and Net code...)
- People were having problems with the .so when installing in
alternative locations.
Like gitian, build a static library with -fPIC that can
be embedded into the executables.
- Add some missing steps
- Add reminder that BerkeleyDB is only needed when wallet support is
enabled
The following mining-related RPC calls don't use the wallet:
- getnetworkhashps
- getmininginfo
- getblocktemplate
- submitblock
Enable them when compiling with --disable-wallet.
laudaa