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| author | Murray Nesbitt <github@nesbitt.ca> | 2018-10-31 02:52:50 -0700 |
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| committer | Murray Nesbitt <github@nesbitt.ca> | 2018-10-31 02:52:50 -0700 |
| commit | 0a04667613b84a57b9e576a2055cc2f2cccdd7e7 (patch) | |
| tree | 05ced0ec7723fd8f77b1590dd48c99bb67b93bfd | |
| parent | 29f429dc7d4c7e6cd012e749cadf89e3138bcab3 (diff) | |
FreeBSD: Document Python 3 requirement for 'gmake check'
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/build-freebsd.md | 18 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/build-freebsd.md b/doc/build-freebsd.md index 7ec62ea779..70f5dfc882 100644 --- a/doc/build-freebsd.md +++ b/doc/build-freebsd.md @@ -14,6 +14,12 @@ You will need the following dependencies, which can be installed as root via pkg pkg install autoconf automake boost-libs git gmake libevent libtool openssl pkgconf ``` +In order to run the test suite (recommended), you will need to have Python 3 installed: + +``` +pkg install python3 +``` + For the wallet (optional): ``` ./contrib/install_db4.sh `pwd` @@ -36,10 +42,22 @@ git clone https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin ./configure # to build with wallet OR ./configure --disable-wallet # to build without wallet +``` + +followed by either: +``` gmake ``` +to build without testing, or + +``` +gmake check +``` + +to also run the test suite (recommended, if Python 3 is installed). + *Note on debugging*: The version of `gdb` installed by default is [ancient and considered harmful](https://wiki.freebsd.org/GdbRetirement). It is not suitable for debugging a multi-threaded C++ program, not even for getting backtraces. Please install the package `gdb` and use the versioned gdb command (e.g. `gdb7111`). |