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authorCharlie Lee <coblee@litecoin.org>2017-07-30 23:32:47 -0700
committerMarcoFalke <falke.marco@gmail.com>2017-08-13 12:26:04 +0200
commite93ff718c59a21532e8deb57d823b8fae2d87334 (patch)
treebe31d811ff6dda4d260374607e2aded18d838847
parent42307c4bf363d695c68a65ba7cbf8d6790079abf (diff)
Add instructions for multi-processor gitian builds
-rw-r--r--doc/gitian-building.md6
-rw-r--r--doc/gitian-building/system_settings.pngbin0 -> 76448 bytes
-rw-r--r--doc/release-process.md6
3 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/gitian-building.md b/doc/gitian-building.md
index 9f9afaf04f..636686b391 100644
--- a/doc/gitian-building.md
+++ b/doc/gitian-building.md
@@ -76,7 +76,11 @@ In the VirtualBox GUI click "New" and choose the following parameters in the wiz
After creating the VM, we need to configure it.
-- Click the `Settings` button, then go to the `Network` tab. Adapter 1 should be attached to `NAT`.
+- Click the `Settings` button, then go to `System` tab and `Processor` sub-tab. Increase the number of processors to the number of cores on your machine if you want builds to be faster.
+
+![](gitian-building/system_settings.png)
+
+- Go to the `Network` tab. Adapter 1 should be attached to `NAT`.
![](gitian-building/network_settings.png)
diff --git a/doc/gitian-building/system_settings.png b/doc/gitian-building/system_settings.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a5720ef3a3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/gitian-building/system_settings.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/doc/release-process.md b/doc/release-process.md
index 5a99b726f1..f429b4bbdb 100644
--- a/doc/release-process.md
+++ b/doc/release-process.md
@@ -111,16 +111,16 @@ The gbuild invocations below <b>DO NOT DO THIS</b> by default.
### Build and sign Bitcoin Core for Linux, Windows, and OS X:
pushd ./gitian-builder
- ./bin/gbuild --memory 3000 --commit bitcoin=v${VERSION} ../bitcoin/contrib/gitian-descriptors/gitian-linux.yml
+ ./bin/gbuild --num-make 2 --memory 3000 --commit bitcoin=v${VERSION} ../bitcoin/contrib/gitian-descriptors/gitian-linux.yml
./bin/gsign --signer $SIGNER --release ${VERSION}-linux --destination ../gitian.sigs/ ../bitcoin/contrib/gitian-descriptors/gitian-linux.yml
mv build/out/bitcoin-*.tar.gz build/out/src/bitcoin-*.tar.gz ../
- ./bin/gbuild --memory 3000 --commit bitcoin=v${VERSION} ../bitcoin/contrib/gitian-descriptors/gitian-win.yml
+ ./bin/gbuild --num-make 2 --memory 3000 --commit bitcoin=v${VERSION} ../bitcoin/contrib/gitian-descriptors/gitian-win.yml
./bin/gsign --signer $SIGNER --release ${VERSION}-win-unsigned --destination ../gitian.sigs/ ../bitcoin/contrib/gitian-descriptors/gitian-win.yml
mv build/out/bitcoin-*-win-unsigned.tar.gz inputs/bitcoin-win-unsigned.tar.gz
mv build/out/bitcoin-*.zip build/out/bitcoin-*.exe ../
- ./bin/gbuild --memory 3000 --commit bitcoin=v${VERSION} ../bitcoin/contrib/gitian-descriptors/gitian-osx.yml
+ ./bin/gbuild --num-make 2 --memory 3000 --commit bitcoin=v${VERSION} ../bitcoin/contrib/gitian-descriptors/gitian-osx.yml
./bin/gsign --signer $SIGNER --release ${VERSION}-osx-unsigned --destination ../gitian.sigs/ ../bitcoin/contrib/gitian-descriptors/gitian-osx.yml
mv build/out/bitcoin-*-osx-unsigned.tar.gz inputs/bitcoin-osx-unsigned.tar.gz
mv build/out/bitcoin-*.tar.gz build/out/bitcoin-*.dmg ../