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| author | Wladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com> | 2016-04-28 10:43:39 +0200 |
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| committer | Wladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com> | 2016-04-28 10:47:41 +0200 |
| commit | 7df92242a99db68962048aad34532e6c0e7a42fa (patch) | |
| tree | 94c30f31ff55c08fd5f5246ae441060e1012dd3d /doc/release-notes.md | |
| parent | 2aacc72727b891aa6f42e97d16e8954fba014703 (diff) | |
doc: Add note about new build/test requirements to release notes
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diff --git a/doc/release-notes.md b/doc/release-notes.md index 7a673cc350..7d44b8cda9 100644 --- a/doc/release-notes.md +++ b/doc/release-notes.md @@ -43,6 +43,19 @@ RPC low-level changes 32-bit and 64-bit platforms, and the txids were missing in the hashed data. This has been fixed, but this means that the output will be different than from previous versions. +C++11 and Python 3 +------------------- + +Various code modernizations have been done. The Bitcoin Core code base has +started using C++11. This means that a C++11-capable compiler is now needed for +building. Effectively this means GCC 4.7 or higher, or Clang 3.3 or higher. + +When cross-compiling for a target that doesn't have C++11 libraries, configure with +`./configure --enable-glibc-back-compat ... LDFLAGS=-static-libstdc++`. + +For running the functional tests in `qa/rpc-tests`, Python3.4 or higher is now +required. + 0.13.0 Change log ================= |