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authormurrayn <github@nesbitt.ca>2018-02-01 00:41:03 -0800
committermurrayn <github@nesbitt.ca>2018-02-01 00:41:03 -0800
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Remove suggestion to make cloned repository world-writable for Windows build.
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@@ -102,11 +102,9 @@ Note that for WSL the Bitcoin Core source path MUST be somewhere in the default
example /usr/src/bitcoin, AND not under /mnt/d/. If this is not the case the dependency autoconf scripts will fail.
This means you cannot use a directory that located directly on the host Windows file system to perform the build.
-The next three steps are an example of how to acquire the source in an appropriate way.
+Acquire the source in the usual way:
- cd /usr/src
- sudo git clone https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.git
- sudo chmod -R a+rw bitcoin
+ git clone https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.git
Once the source code is ready the build steps are below.
@@ -132,11 +130,9 @@ Note that for WSL the Bitcoin Core source path MUST be somewhere in the default
example /usr/src/bitcoin, AND not under /mnt/d/. If this is not the case the dependency autoconf scripts will fail.
This means you cannot use a directory that located directly on the host Windows file system to perform the build.
-The next three steps are an example of how to acquire the source in an appropriate way.
+Acquire the source in the usual way:
- cd /usr/src
- sudo git clone https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.git
- sudo chmod -R a+rw bitcoin
+ git clone https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.git
Then build using: